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Popular opposition to the American Civil War, which lasted from 1861 to 1865, was widespread.Although there had been many attempts at compromise prior to the outbreak of war, there were those who felt it could still be ended peacefully or did not believe it should have occurred in the first place.
Class of '61 is a 1993 American war drama television film produced by Steven Spielberg as a projected television series about the American Civil War. [1] It focused on men who were classmates at West Point and separated by the war between the North and the South.
The End of the Civil War (2009, History Channel): a collection of four separately produced and aired films sold as a single title: Sherman's March (2007), April 1865 (2003), The Hunt for John Wilkes Booth (2007), and Stealing Lincoln's Body (2009). The collection is also known as The Last Days of the Civil War. Gettysburg (broadcast on History ...
Colombian Civil War (1860–62) Granadine Confederation: Federal State of Cauca: 1860 1890 Barasa–Ubaidat War: Ubaidat Tribe Barasa Tribe 1861 1883 Occupation of Araucanía Chile: Araucanía: 1861 1865 American Civil War: United States of America Confederate States of America: 1861 1867 French intervention in Mexico Also known as Franco ...
Copperhead pamphlet from 1864 by Charles Chauncey Burr, a magazine editor from New York City [10]. During the American Civil War (1861–1865), the Copperheads nominally favored the Union and strongly opposed the war, about which they faulted abolitionists.
(Also see American Civil War films, Cinema and television about the American Civil War) The Birth of a Nation (1915), first English Language epic film; The Copperhead (1920) The General (1926), a comedy starring Buster Keaton; Abraham Lincoln (1930) The Littlest Rebel (1935) General Spanky (1936) Gone with the Wind (1939) Virginia City (1940) A ...
In January 1865, President Abraham Lincoln expects the Civil War to end soon, with the defeat of the Confederate States. He is concerned that his 1863 Emancipation Proclamation may be discarded by the courts after the war and that the proposed Thirteenth Amendment will be defeated by the returning slave states. He feels it imperative to pass ...
In the many decades between the Revolutionary War and the Civil War, such divisions became increasingly irreconcilable and contentious. [1] Events in the 1850s culminated with the election of the anti-slavery Republican Abraham Lincoln as president on November 6, 1860.