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1 day ago · American Civil War, four-year war (1861–65) fought between the United States and 11 Southern states that seceded to form the Confederate States of America. It arose out of disputes over slavery and states’ rights. When antislavery candidate Abraham Lincoln was elected president (1860), the Southern states seceded.
- Cost, Significance, Impact
The enormous death rate—roughly 2 percent of the 1860...
- Missouri Compromise
Missouri Compromise, measure worked out in 1820 between the...
- Mexican-American War
The Mexican-American War was a conflict between the United...
- Battle of Monocacy
Battle of Monocacy, (July 9, 1864), American Civil War...
- The Land War
American Civil War - Battles, Armies, Impact: A strong...
- Battle of Antietam
At the cost of fewer than 300 Confederate casualties,...
- Cost, Significance, Impact
1 day ago · Achieving great national fame for his victories at Vicksburg and the surrender at Appomattox, Grant was the most successful general, Union or Confederate, in the American Civil War. He was criticized by the South for using excessive force, [559] and his drinking was often exaggerated by the press and stereotyped by rivals and critics.
- Hiram Ulysses Grant, April 27, 1822, Point Pleasant, Ohio, U.S.
- Abraham Lincoln, Andrew Johnson
2 days ago · v. t. e. The American Civil War (April 12, 1861 – May 26, 1865; also known by other names) was a civil war in the United States between the Union [e] ("the North") and the Confederacy ("the South"), which had been formed by states that had seceded from the Union. The central conflict leading to the war was the dispute over whether slavery ...
- April 12, 1861 – May 26, 1865, (4 years, 1 month and 2 weeks)
- Dissolution of the Confederate States of America
1 day ago · The Vicksburg American reported that the Arthur house “is a two-story frame residence which is one of the oldest places in the city, having been built many years prior to the Civil War by the ...
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3 days ago · The eastern theater of the American Civil War consisted of the major military and naval operations in the states of Virginia, West Virginia, Maryland, and Pennsylvania, the District of Columbia, and the coastal fortifications and seaports of North Carolina (operations in the interior of the Carolinas in 1865 are considered part of the western theater, while the other coastal areas along the ...
4 days ago · Also inscribed are references to major battles-Vicksburg, Chickamauga, Atlanta, Gettysburg, Shiloh and Stone River. ... Newton Chalker, a Civil War veteran and successful businessman, had built ...
4 days ago · In the decades after the Civil War ended, Confederate veterans, such as Mississippi State University inaugural President Stephen D. Lee, and groups like SCV began the work of remaking history in a way that shone a more favorable light on the South—muddying the waters over the cause of the war and falsely describing it as a “war of northern ...
