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American Civil War

Top left: Rosecrans at Stones River, Tennessee; top right: Confederate prisoners at Gettysburg; bottom: Battle of Fort Hindman, Arkansas
Date April 12, 1861 – April 9, 1865
Location Principally in the Southern United States
Result Union victory; Reconstruction; slavery abolished

Belligerents

United States of America ("Union")
 
Confederate States of America ("Confederacy")

Commanders
Abraham Lincoln,
Ulysses S. Grant Jefferson Davis,
Robert E. Lee
Strength
2,200,000 1,064,000
Casualties and losses
110,000 killed in action,
360,000 total dead,
275,200 wounded 93,000 killed in action,
258,000 total dead,
137,000+ wounded

[show]v • d • eTheaters of the
American Civil War


Union blockade – Eastern – Western – Lower Seaboard – Trans-Mississippi – Pacific Coast


The American Civil War (1861–1865), also known by several other names, was a civil war between the United States of America (the "Union") and the Southern slave states of the newly formed Confederate States of America under Jefferson Davis. The Union included all of the free states and the five slaveholding border states and was led by Abraham Lincoln and the Republican Party. Republicans opposed the expansion of slavery into territories owned by the United States, and their victory in the presidential election of 1860 resulted in seven Southern states declaring their secession from the Union even before Lincoln took office.[1] The Union rejected secession, regarding it as rebellion.

Hostilities began on April 12, 1861, when Confederate forces attacked a U.S. military installation at Fort Sumter in South Carolina. Lincoln responded by calling for a large volunteer army, causing four more Southern states to secede. In the war's first year, the...