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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 was formed in 1861 by states that had seceded from the Union. The central conflict leading to war was a dispute over whether slavery should be ...
Corwin Amendment. Star of the West; Battle of Fort Sumter. Secession; Confederate States. This timeline of events leading to the American Civil War is a chronologically ordered list of events and issues that historians recognize as origins and causes of the American Civil War.
List of American Civil War battles. Battle of Fort Sumter – April 12, 1861 and April 13, 1861. First Battle of Bull Run – July 21, 1861. Battle of Wilson's Creek – August 10, 1861. Battle of Fort Donelson – February 12 to February 16, 1862. Battle of Pea Ridge – March 7 and March 8, 1862.
Beauregard takes Charleston Federal fort in the first battle of the American Civil War. May 18 –19, 1861. Battle of Sewell's Point. Virginia. D. Inconclusive. Union gunboats fight inconclusive battle with Confederate artillery. May 29 – June 1, 1861. Battle of Aquia Creek.
The western theater of the American Civil War encompassed major military operations in the states of Alabama, Georgia, Florida, Mississippi, North Carolina, Kentucky, South Carolina and Tennessee, as well as Louisiana east of the Mississippi River. Operations on the coasts of these states, except for Mobile Bay, are considered part of the Lower ...
New Mexico campaign. The New Mexico campaign was a military operation of the trans-Mississippi theater of the American Civil War from February to April 1862 in which Confederate Brigadier General Henry Hopkins Sibley invaded the northern New Mexico Territory in an attempt to gain control of the Southwest, including the gold fields of Colorado ...
1973: Operation Nickel Grass, a strategic airlift operation conducted by the United States to deliver weapons and supplies to Israel during the Yom Kippur War. 1974: Evacuation from Cyprus: United States naval forces evacuated U.S. civilians during the Turkish invasion of Cyprus.
The origins of the American Civil War were rooted in the desire of the Southern states to preserve the institution of slavery. [1] Historians in the 21st century overwhelmingly agree on the centrality of slavery in the conflict. They disagree on which aspects (ideological, economic, political, or social) were most important, and on the North 's ...