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Outline of the American Civil War

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Etymology

  • Naming the American Civil War
  • Combatants

    The Union (USA) aka "The North" · Union Army · Union Navy

    Contents

    The Confederacy (CSA) aka "The South" · Confederate Army · Confederate Navy

    Union

  • Abraham Lincoln
  • Medal of Honor
  • Old Glory
  • Yankee
  • Confederacy

  • Jefferson Davis
  • Flags of the Confederate States of America
  • Museum of the Confederacy
  • Southern Cross of Honor
  • Pre-war environment

  • Antebellum era
  • James Batchelder
  • Bleeding Kansas
  • John Brown (abolitionist)
  • Anthony Burns
  • John C. Calhoun
  • Compromise of 1850
  • Corwin Amendment
  • Crittenden Compromise
  • Force Bill
  • Free Methodist Church
  • Filibuster (military)
  • Gag rule
  • Georgia Platform
  • Golden Circle (proposed country)
  • Kansas-Nebraska Act
  • Knights of the Golden Circle
  • Manifest Destiny
  • Missouri Compromise
  • Morrill Land-Grant Colleges Act
  • Morrill Tariff
  • National Banking Act
  • New York City secession
  • Nullification Crisis
  • Oberlin College
  • Oberlin-Wellington Rescue
  • Presbyterian Church
  • Dred Scott
  • Supreme Court cases of the American Civil War
  • Third Party System
  • Nat Turner
  • Uncle Tom's Cabin
  • Underground Railroad
  • United States presidential election, 1860
  • Wilmot Proviso
  • Origins of the war

  • Abolition
  • John Brown
  • Frederick Douglass
  • William Lloyd Garrison
  • Lysander Spooner
  • Harriet Tubman
  • Underground Railroad
  • Northwest Ordinance of 1787
  • Missouri Compromise
  • Nullification Crisis
  • Compromise of 1850
  • Antebellum era
  • Bleeding Kansas
  • Border states
  • Secession
  • President Lincoln's 75,000 Volunteers
  • Slavery
  • African-Americans
  • Emancipation Proclamation
  • Fugitive slave laws
  • Slave power
  • Uncle Tom's Cabin
  • States' rights
  • During the war

  • Andersonville National Historic Site
  • Christmas in the American Civil War
  • Dahlgren Affair
  • Emancipation Proclamation
  • Habeas corpus
  • Income tax in the United States
  • Kaiser Burnout
  • Mother's Day
  • New York Draft Riots
  • Nickajack
  • The Philadelphia Inquirer
  • Quantrill's Raiders
  • Republic of Winston
  • Sex in the American Civil War
  • Thanksgiving: Lincoln and the Civil War
  • Turning point of the American Civil War
  • United States National Academy of Sciences
  • United States presidential election, 1864
  • West Virginia
  • Commerce and Infrastructure

  • Blockade runners of the American Civil War
  • Confederate railroads in the American Civil War
  • Confederate States of America dollar
  • Cotton
  • History of cotton
  • King Cotton
  • Cotton diplomacy
  • Cotton gin
  • Economy of the Confederate States of America
  • Economy of the U.S. during the American Civil War
  • National Bank Act
  • Postage stamps and postal history of the Confederate States
  • Salt in the American Civil War
  • Southern Bread Riots
  • Tredegar Iron Works
  • Trent Affair
  • Confederate Forces

  • Military of the Confederate States of America
  • Confederate Home Guard
  • Confederate States Army
  • Confederate States Marine Corps
  • Confederate States Navy
  • General officers in the Confederate States Army
  • Missouri State Guard
  • The Citadel
  • Uniforms of the Confederate States military forces
  • Virginia Military Institute
  • Union Forces

  • Uniform of the Union Army
  • Union Army
  • Union Army Balloon Corps
  • Union Navy
  • United States Marine Corps
  • United States Military Academy
  • U.S. Military Telegraph Corps
  • United States Naval Academy
  • United States Sanitary Commission
  • The Armed Personnel

  • Infantry in the American Civil War
  • Zouaves of the American Civil War
  • Cavalry in the American Civil War
  • Field artillery in the American Civil War
  • Siege artillery in the American Civil War
  • Military leadership in the American Civil War
  • Brevet
  • List of American Civil War generals
  • Confederate Generals
  • Union Generals
  • Union Brevet Generals
  • Firearms

  • Brooke rifle
  • Canister shot
  • Coal torpedo
  • Enfield rifles
  • Fayetteville rifle
  • Field artillery in the American Civil War
  • Henry rifle
  • Ketchum Grenade
  • Land mine
  • M1819 Hall rifle
  • Machine gun
  • Minié ball
  • Naval mine
  • Parrott rifle
  • Pratt & Whitney
  • Sharps rifle
  • Spencer repeating rifle
  • Springfield Model 1861
  • Springfield Model 1863
  • Ships and Submarines

  • CSS Virginia
  • CSS Stonewall
  • Confederate privateer
  • H. L. Hunley (submarine)
  • Hospital ship
  • Ironclad warship
  • Submarines in the American Civil War
  • Turret ship
  • USS Monitor
  • Military strategy

  • Military strategy in the industrial age
  • Espionage (spies)
  • Allan Pinkerton
  • Confederate Secret Service
  • Guerrilla warfare in the American Civil War
  • Bushwhacker
  • Jayhawker
  • Scorched earth
  • Theaters

  • Eastern Theater of the American Civil War
  • Western Theater of the American Civil War
  • Lower Seaboard Theater of the American Civil War
  • Trans-Mississippi Theater of the American Civil War
  • Pacific Coast Theater of the American Civil War
  • Union naval blockade
  • Campaigns

  • Anaconda Plan
  • New Mexico Campaign
  • Jackson's Valley Campaign
  • Peninsula Campaign
  • Northern Virginia Campaign
  • Maryland Campaign
  • Stones River Campaign
  • Vicksburg Campaign
  • Tullahoma Campaign
  • Gettysburg Campaign
  • Morgan's Raid
  • Bristoe Campaign
  • Knoxville Campaign
  • Red River Campaign
  • Overland Campaign
  • Atlanta Campaign
  • Valley Campaigns of 1864
  • Bermuda Hundred Campaign
  • Siege of Petersburg
  • Franklin-Nashville Campaign
  • Price's Raid
  • Sherman's March to the Sea
  • Carolinas Campaign
  • Appomattox Campaign
  • Major 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
  • Battle of Hampton Roads – March 8, 1862 and March 9, 1862
  • Battle of Shiloh – April 6 and April 7, 1862
  • Battle of New Orleans – April 25 to May 1, 1862
  • Battle of Seven Pines – May 31 and June 1, 1862
  • Seven Days Battles – June 25 to July 1, 1862
  • Second Battle of Bull Run – August 28 to August 30, 1862
  • Battle of Antietam – September 17, 1862
  • Battle of Perryville – October 8, 1862
  • Battle of Fredericksburg – December 11 to December 15, 1862
  • Battle of Stones River – December 31, 1862 to January 2, 1863
  • Battle of Chancellorsville – April 30 to May 6, 1863
  • Battle of Gettysburg – July 1 to July 3, 1863
  • Siege of Vicksburg – May 19 to July 4, 1863
  • Battle of Chickamauga – September 19 to September 20, 1863
  • Battles for Chattanooga – November 23 to November 25, 1863
  • Battle of the Wilderness – May 5 to May 7, 1864
  • Battle of Spotsylvania Court House – May 8 to May 21, 1864
  • Battle of Cold Harbor – May 31 to June 3, 1864
  • Battle of Atlanta – July 22, 1864
  • Battle of Mobile Bay – August 5, 1864
  • Battle of Franklin – November 30, 1864
  • Battle of Nashville – December 15 to December 16, 1864
  • Battle of Five Forks – April 1, 1865
  • Involvement, by ethnic

  • African Americans in the American Civil War
  • German Americans in the Civil War
  • Hispanics in the American Civil War
  • Italian Americans in the Civil War
  • Irish Americans in the American Civil War
  • Native Americans in the American Civil War
  • States

  • Alabama
  • Alabama in the American Civil War
  • Mobile, Alabama, in the American Civil War
  • Montgomery, Alabama
  • Selma, Alabama, in the American Civil War
  • Arizona
  • Arizona Territory (CSA)
  • Arizona Territory (USA)
  • Arkansas
  • Arkansas in the American Civil War
  • California
  • California in the American Civil War
  • Connecticut
  • Connecticut in the American Civil War
  • Colorado
  • Colorado in the American Civil War
  • Colorado in the Civil War
  • Delaware
  • History of Delaware
  • Florida
  • Florida in the American Civil War
  • Tampa in the Civil War
  • Georgia
  • Georgia in the American Civil War
  • Atlanta in the American Civil War
  • Idaho
  • Idaho in the American Civil War
  • Illinois
  • Illinois in the American Civil War
  • Indiana
  • Indiana in the American Civil War
  • Indianapolis in the American Civil War
  • Iowa
  • Iowa in the American Civil War
  • Kansas
  • Kansas in the American Civil War
  • Kentucky
  • Kentucky in the American Civil War
  • Lexington in the American Civil War
  • Louisville in the American Civil War
  • Louisiana
  • Louisiana in the American Civil War
  • Baton Rouge in the Civil War
  • New Orleans in the American Civil War
  • Maine
  • Maine in the American Civil War
  • Maryland
  • Maryland in the American Civil War
  • Maryland in the Civil War
  • Baltimore riot of 1861
  • Massachusetts
  • Massachusetts in the American Civil War
  • Michigan
  • Michigan in the American Civil War
  • Minnesota
  • History of Minnesota
  • Mississippi
  • Mississippi in the American Civil War
  • Missouri
  • Missouri in the American Civil War
  • St. Louis in the American Civil War
  • Montana
  • Montana in the American Civil War
  • Nebraska
  • Nebraska in the American Civil War
  • New Mexico
  • New Mexico Territory in the American Civil War
  • Nevada
  • Nevada in the American Civil War
  • New Hampshire
  • History of New Hampshire
  • New Jersey
  • New Jersey in the American Civil War
  • New Jersey in the Civil War
  • New York
  • New York in the American Civil War
  • New York City in the American Civil War
  • New York Draft Riots
  • North Carolina
  • North Carolina in the American Civil War
  • Wilmington, North Carolina, in the American Civil War
  • Ohio
  • Ohio in the American Civil War
  • Cincinnati in the American Civil War
  • Cleveland in the American Civil War
  • Oregon
  • History of Oregon
  • Pennsylvania
  • Pennsylvania in the American Civil War
  • Rhode Island
  • Rhode Island in the American Civil War
  • South Carolina
  • South Carolina in the American Civil War
  • Charleston, South Carolina, in the American Civil War
  • Columbia, South Carolina, in the American Civil War
  • Mitchelville
  • South Carolina in the Civil War
  • Tennessee
  • Tennessee in the American Civil War
  • Tennessee in the Civil War
  • Memphis, Tennessee in the Civil War
  • Texas
  • Texas in the American Civil War
  • Houston, Texas in the Civil War
  • Utah
  • Utah in the American Civil War
  • Vermont
  • Vermont in the American Civil War
  • Virginia
  • Virginia in the American Civil War
  • List of American Civil War battles in Northern Virginia
  • Harpers Ferry in the Civil War
  • Richmond in the American Civil War
  • Winchester in the American Civil War
  • West Virginia
  • West Virginia in the American Civil War
  • Romney, West Virginia, in the American Civil War
  • Shenandoah Valley
  • Wisconsin
  • Wisconsin in the American Civil War
  • Washington
  • Washington in the American Civil War
  • Washington, D.C.
  • Washington, D.C. in the American Civil War
  • Foreign countries

  • Australia
  • Australia and the American Civil War
  • Bahamas
  • Bahamas in the American Civil War
  • Belize
  • Toledo Settlement
  • Brazil
  • Santa Bárbara d'Oeste
  • Americana, São Paulo
  • Britain
  • Britain in the American Civil War
  • Canada
  • Canada in the American Civil War
  • France
  • France in the American Civil War
  • Mexico
  • Mexico in the American Civil War
  • Second Cortina War
  • Matamoros, Tamaulipas
  • Bagdad, Tamaulipas
  • Port Isabel, Sonora
  • Aftermath of the war

  • Abraham Lincoln's Assassination
  • African-American Civil Rights Movement (1896–1954)
  • Alabama Claims
  • Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands
  • Carpetbagger
  • Confederados
  • Freedman's Savings Bank
  • Grand Army of the Republic
  • James-Younger Gang
  • Jim Crow laws
  • Juneteenth
  • Ku Klux Klan
  • Last surviving United States war veterans
  • Lost Cause of the Confederacy
  • Memorial Day
  • Mobile magazine explosion
  • Neo-Confederate
  • Old soldiers' home
  • Plessy v. Ferguson
  • Reconstruction era of the United States
  • Redeemers
  • Scalawag
  • Southern Claims Commission
  • Sultana
  • Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution
  • Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution
  • Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution
  • Slavery and States' Rights
  • United Confederate Veterans
  • Unknown Confederate Soldier Monument in Horse Cave
  • Historical Reenactment

  • American Civil War reenactment
  • Novels

  • Gods and Generals
  • Gone with the Wind
  • The Killer Angels
  • Little Women
  • The Red Badge of Courage
  • Uncle Tom's Cabin
  • Film, television and theatre

  • Ken Burns
  • Cold Mountain (film)
  • Friendly Persuasion (film)
  • Gettysburg (film)
  • Glory (film)
  • Gods and Generals (film)
  • Gone with the Wind (film)
  • Major Dundee
  • Mourning Becomes Electra
  • Ride with the Devil (film)
  • Shenandoah (film)
  • The Birth of a Nation
  • The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
  • The Horse Soldiers
  • The Outlaw Josey Wales
  • Games

  • Chancellorsville (game)
  • Civil War (game)
  • Dixie (card game)
  • Terrible Swift Sword (game)
  • Enduring Valor: Gettysburg in Miniature
  • Gettysburg (game)
  • Gods and Generals (video game)
  • Civil War Generals 2 (video game)
  • Sid Meier's Gettysburg! (video game)
  • Ageod's American Civil War (video game)
  • Magazines

  • CHARGE! (magazine)
  • Music

  • Music of the American Civil War
  • "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down"
  • References

    Outline of the American Civil War Wikipedia