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2. American Civil War - Wikipedia

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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 ...

3. Border states (American Civil War) - Wikipedia

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   In the American Civil War (1861–65), the border states or the Border South were four, later five, slave states in the Upper South that primarily supported the Union. They were Delaware, Maryland, Kentucky, and Missouri, and after 1863, the new state of West Virginia. To their north they bordered free states of the Union, and all but Delaware ...

4. List of American Civil War battles - Wikipedia

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   Battles of the American Civil War were fought between April 12, 1861, and May 12–13, 1865 in 19 states, mostly Confederate (Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, Missouri, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Vermont, Virginia, and West Virginia [A]), the District of Columbia, and six territories (Arizona ...

5. File:Southern United States Civil War Map.svg - Wikipedia

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   Historic Southern United States. The states in light red were considered "border states", and gave varying degrees of support to the Southern cause although they remained in the Union. Date: see file history below. Source: own work by uploader, based on Image:Map of USA without state names.svg: Author: This version: uploader

6. File:Map of American Civil War in 1864.svg - Wikipedia

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   File:Map of American Civil War in 1864.svg. Size of this PNG preview of this SVG file: 800 × 399 pixels. Other resolutions: 320 × 160 pixels | 640 × 320 pixels | 1,024 × 511 pixels | 1,280 × 639 pixels | 2,560 × 1,278 pixels | 3,965 × 1,980 pixels. Original file ‎ (SVG file, nominally 3,965 × 1,980 pixels, file size: 204 KB) This is a ...

7. List of American Civil War units by state - Wikipedia

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   This is a list of American Civil War units, consisting of those established as federally organized units as well as units raised by individual states and territories. Many states had soldiers and units fighting for both the United States ( Union Army ) and the Confederate States ( Confederate States Army ).

8. Union (American Civil War) - Wikipedia

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   The Union, colloquially known as the North, refers to the United States when eleven Southern slave states seceded to form the Confederate States of America (CSA), also known as the Confederacy or South, during the American Civil War. The Union was led by Abraham Lincoln, the 16th president of the United States, and sought to preserve the nation ...

9. Music of the American Civil War - Wikipedia

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   Music of theUnited States. During the American Civil War, music played a prominent role on each side of the conflict, Union (the North) and Confederate (the South). On the battlefield, different instruments including bugles, drums, and fifes were played to issue marching orders or sometimes simply to boost the morale of one's fellow soldiers.