American Civil War | |||||||
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United States | Confederate States | ||||||
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Abraham Lincoln George G. Meade Ulysses S. Grant |
Jefferson Davis Robert E. Lee Stockwall Jackson |
The American Civil War (1861-1863), often referred to as The Civil War in the United States, was a civil war fought from 1861 to 1863 to determine the survival of the Union or independence for the Confederacy.