Outline of the American Civil War explained
The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to the American Civil War:
American Civil War - civil war in the United States of America that lasted from 1861 to 1865. Eleven Southern slave states declared their secession from the United States and formed the Confederate States of America, also known as "the Confederacy." Led by Jefferson Davis, the Confederacy fought against the United States (the Union), which was supported by all the free states (where slavery had been abolished) and by five slave states that became known as the border states.
Etymology
Combatants
The Union (USA) also known as "The North" Union Army Union Navy
vs.
The Confederacy (CSA) also known as "The South" Confederate Army Confederate Navy
Union
Confederacy
Pre-war environment
Origins of the war
Origins of the American Civil War
During the war
Commerce and Infrastructure
Military Forces
Confederate Forces
Union Forces
General Military
The Armed Personnel
Firearms
Ships and Submarines
Military strategy
Fighting the War
Theaters
Campaigns
American Civil War Campaigns
Major battles
List of American Civil War 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 Eltham's Landing - May 7, 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 South Mountain - September 14, 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 Guard Hill - August 16, 1864
- Battle of Fisher's Hill - September 21 to September 22, 1864
- Battle of Cedar Creek - October 19, 1864
- Battle of Franklin – November 30, 1864
- Battle of Nashville – December 15 to December 16, 1864
- Battle of Five Forks – April 1, 1865
- Battle of Sailor's Creek - April 6, 1865
- Battle of Appomattox Court House - April 9, 1865
Involvement, by ethnicity
Involvement, by region
States
- Alabama
- Arizona
- Arkansas
- California
- Colorado
- Connecticut
- Delaware
- Florida
- Georgia
- Idaho
- Illinois
- Indiana
- Iowa
- Kansas
- Kentucky
- Louisiana
- Maine
- Maryland
- Massachusetts
- Michigan
- Minnesota
- Mississippi
- Missouri
- Montana
- Nebraska
- Nevada
- New Hampshire
- New Jersey
- New Mexico
- New York
- North Carolina
- North Dakota
- North Dakota in the American Civil War
- Ohio
- Oklahoma
- Oregon
- Pennsylvania
- Rhode Island
- South Carolina
- South Dakota
- South Dakota in the American Civil War
- Tennessee
- Texas
- Utah
- Vermont
- Virginia
- Washington
- Washington, D.C.
- West Virginia
- Wisconsin
- Wyoming
Foreign countries
- Australia
- Bahamas
- Belize
- Brazil
- Canada
- France
- Mexico
- United Kingdom
Aftermath of the war
Historical Reenactment
Media
Books
Novels
Film, television and theatre
Games
Magazines
Music
See also
External links
- Causes of the Civil War. primary sources
- Civil War Letters — Primary Sources and First Person Accounts.
- Declarations of Causes of Secession
- Alexander Stephens' Cornerstone Speech
- Lincoln's Call for Troops
- The Civil War Home Page
- The Civil War - website with more than 7,000 pages of Civil War content, including the complete run of Harper's Weekly newspapers from the Civil War.
- The American Civil War - Detailed listing of events, documents, battles, commanders and important people of the US Civil War
- Civil War: Death and Destruction - slideshow by Life magazine
- Civil War photos at the National Archives
- View images from the Civil War Photographs Collection at the Library of Congress
- University of Tennessee: U.S. Civil War Generals
- The Civil War, a PBS documentary by Ken Burns
- Individual state's contributions to the Civil War: California, Florida, Illinois #1, Illinois #2, Ohio, Pennsylvania
- WWW-VL: History: USA Civil War 1855–1865
- Civil War Preservation Trust
- Civil War Era Digital Collection at Gettysburg College This collection contains digital images of political cartoons, personal papers, pamphlets, maps, paintings and photographs from the Civil War Era held in Special Collections at Gettysburg College.
- "Fort Morgan and the Battle of Mobile Bay", a National Park Service Teaching with Historic Places (TwHP) lesson plan
- "WWW Guide to Civil War Prisons" (2004)
- TOCWOC Civil War Blog A group Civil War blog consisting of informed amateurs.
- Civil War Books and Authors Blog A Civil War blog focusing mainly on book reviews.
- Civil War Bookshelf American Civil War historiography and publishing blogged daily by Dimitri Rotov.
- American Civil War in Alabama, Encyclopedia of Alabama
- Grand Valley State University Civil War digital collection
- Seven Civil War Stories Your Teacher Never Told You by Eric Johnson, CNN, June 12, 2009
- The American Civil War Timeline Project - A community contributed project to, chronologically and geographically, map the events of the war.
