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  2. American Civil War - Wikipedia

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    Exact casualty figures were collected for the Union, but Confederate records were poorly kept, or lost in the chaos of defeat. Thus, the casualty figures are imprecise and based on statistical extrapolation. Neither side kept a tally of civilian deaths due to the war. In the 19th century, the death toll had been estimated at a lower 620,000. [9]

  3. Union (American Civil War) - Wikipedia

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    The division of Union and Confederate states during the American Civil War. In the context of the American Civil War, the Union, or the United States, is sometimes referred to as "the North", both then and now, as opposed to the Confederacy, which was often called "the South".

  4. Turning point of the American Civil War - Wikipedia

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    A Union battalion scales the defenses of Vicksburg in a costly failed assault ordered by Grant early in the siege Union troops repulsed Pickett's Charge on the last day of the Battle of Gettysburg. On July 4, 1863, the most important Confederate stronghold on the Mississippi River at Vicksburg, Mississippi, surrendered to General Ulysses S. Grant.

  5. Diplomacy of the American Civil War - Wikipedia

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    Dark Blue: Free States Light Blue: Slave states that did not secede Red: Confederate States Gray: Non-autonomous territories. The diplomacy of the American Civil War involved the relations of the United States and the Confederate States of America with the major world powers during the American Civil War of 1861–1865.

  6. Confederate States of America - Wikipedia

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    The Confederate States of America claimed a total of 2,919 miles (4,698 km) of coastline, thus a large part of its territory lay on the seacoast with level and often sandy or marshy ground. Most of the interior portion consisted of arable farmland, though much was also hilly and mountainous, and the far western territories were deserts.

  7. Friday is Confederate Memorial Day. Why does Florida still ...

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    On Friday, April 26, the state of Florida officially honors the Floridians who took up arms in the Confederate battle against the United States of America in the Civil War. Confederate Memorial ...

  8. Confederate military relics dumped during Union offensive ...

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    Hundreds of Civil War relics were unearthed during the cleanup of a South Carolina river where Union troops dumped Confederate military equipment to deliver a demoralizing blow for rebel forces in ...

  9. Reconstruction era - Wikipedia

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    The Southerners proposed the Union recognition of the Confederacy, a joint UnionConfederate attack on Mexico to oust Emperor Maximilian I, and an alternative subordinate status of servitude for Blacks rather than slavery. Lincoln flatly rejected recognition of the Confederacy, and said that the slaves covered by his Emancipation Proclamation ...