American Civil War
English: The American Civil War (1861–1865) was an insurrection fought between the United States of America and several rebellious slave-owning states in the southern U.S., known as the "Confederate States". The latter was defeated, with slavery in the U.S. being ended as a result.
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Maps
Flags
United States of America
- American flags.
- American flags.
- American flags.
- American flags.
- American flags.
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The Confederacy
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Seals
United States of America
- United States of America
- United States Army
The Confederacy
- The Confederacy
- Confederate Navy
Leaders
United States of America
- First Reading of the Emancipation Proclamation of President Lincoln, 1864.
- Cabinet of U.S. President Lincoln
- Cabinet of U.S. President Lincoln
The Confederacy
- The Confederate Cabinet.
- Generals of the Confederate army.
- The Confederate Cabinet.
Soldiers
- Soldier
- Union soldiers
- "All Quiet Along the Potomac"
- McClellan riding through Frederick, Maryland
- Battle of Antietam
- 4th United States Colored Infantry
Eastern Theater
Land battles
- Battle of (First) Bull Run, 1861
- Battle of Malvern Hill, 1862
- Battle of Antietam, 1862
- Battle of Fredericksburg, 1862
- A U.S. pontoon bridge crossing the Rappahannock River at the Battle of Fredericksburg, 1862
- Battle of Chancellorsville, 1863
- Battle of Gettysburg, 1863
- Battle of the Wilderness, 1864
- Battle of Cold Harbor, 1864
- Battle of Cedar Creek, October 1864
- Fall of Richmond, 1865
- Surrender at Appomattox Court House (1865)
Naval battles
- Battle of Hampton Roads (1862)
- Action of USS Monitor against CSS Virginia (March 9, 1862)
- Final Assault upon Fort Fisher, North Carolina, 1865
Photographs
- Field hospital after the Battle of Savage's Station (1862)
- President Lincoln and Gen. McClellan at Antietam
- Union soldiers entrenched at the Battle of Chancellorsville (1863)
- Dead soldiers at the Battle of Gettysburg
- Collecting bones after the Battle of Cold Harbor
- "The Dictator" mortar at Petersburg
Western Theater
- Battle of Fort Donelson, 1862
- Battle of Shiloh, February 1862
- Battle of Chickamauga, 1863
- Bombardment and Capture of Island Number Ten on the Mississippi River, April 7, 1862.
- Battle on the lower Mississippi, April 24, 1862
- The Total Annihilation of the Rebel Fleet by the Federal Fleet under Commodore Davis - June 6, 1862, off Memphis
- CSS Arkansas running through the Union fleet above Vicksburg, Mississippi, July 15, 1862
- Bombardment and capture of Fort Hindman, Arkansas Post, Ark. January 11, 1863
- Admiral Porter's Fleet Running the Rebel Blockade of the Mississippi at Vicksburg, April 16, 1863
- Confederates killing U.S. soldiers in the Fort Pillow Massacre, April 1864.
- Confederates killing U.S. soldiers and civilians in the Fort Pillow Massacre, April 1864.
- Battle of Kenesaw Mountain, June 1864.
- Siege of Atlanta
- Destroyed Roundhouse at Atlanta
- Confederate railroad being destroyed by U.S. forces during the Atlanta Campaign.
- Sherman's march to the sea.
Lower Seaboard Theater
- Bombardment of Fort Sumter, April 1861.
- Battle of Fort Wagner, July 1863
- "The Old Flag Never Touched the Ground", depicting the Second Battle of Fort Wagner (1863)
- Battle of Olustee (1864)
- Battle of Olustee (1864)
Trans-Mississippi Theater and elsewhere
- Battle of Wilson's Creek, August 1861.
- Texan civilians murdered by Confederates at Gainesville, October 1862.
- American ship USS Kearsarge battling the Confederate ship CSS Alabama at Cherbourg.
Ships and vessels
- American ship, USS Monitor.
- American ironclad gunboat USS Cairo.
- American ironclad gunboat USS Choctaw.
- American timberclad gunboat USS Conestoga.
- American ship USS Cayuga, a screw steam gunboat.
- Confederate ship, CSS Atlanta.
Technology of the war
- Thaddeus S.C. Lowe's observation balloon "Intrepid" being inflated
- Lowe's observation balloon "Intrepid"
- United States Military Railroad and Lincoln's Presidential Car.
- United States Military Railroad locomotive
- Ambulance crew
Graves
- Shiloh National Military Park cemetery