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American Civil War

1861–1865 civil war in the United States between the North and the South
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. Over a thousand public domain images are available from The Library of Congress. (These should be imported and categorized.)

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1865
 
States that declared secession before April 15, 1861
 
States that declared secession after April 15, 1861
 
Union states that permitted slavery
 
Union states that forbade slavery
 
Territories, unaffiliated
 
Union states, including those admitted during the war
 
Union states that permitted slavery
 
Confederate States
 
Territories
 
Union states
 
Union territories
 
The border states
 
Bleeding Kansas
 
The Confederacy
 
Confederate claimed and sometimes held territories

Flags

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United States of America

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United States of America (1861), the "Stars and Stripes".
 
United States of America (1861), the "Stars and Stripes".
 
United States of America (1861), the "Great Star Flag".
 
United States of America (1861), the "Fort Sumter Flag".
 
United States of America (1861–1863), the "Flag with the Thirty-Four Stars".
 
United States of America (1861–1863), the "Flag with the Thirty-Four Stars".
 
United States of America (1863–1865), the "Stars and Stripes".
 
United States of America (1863–1865), the "Stars and Stripes".
 
United States Navy (1861).
 
United States Navy (1861–1863).
 
United States Navy (1863–1865).
 
United States Navy (1864–1865).
 
3rd United States Colored Troops.
 
3rd United States Colored Troops.
 
26th Regiment of the United States Colored Troops.
 
26th Regiment of the United States Colored Troops.
 
20th Maine Volunteer Infantry Regiment.
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    American flags.
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    American flags.
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    American flags.
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    American flags.
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    American flags.
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    American flags.
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    American flags.

The Confederacy

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The Confederacy (1861), the "Stars and Bars".
 
The Confederacy (1861), the "Stars and Bars".
 
The Confederacy (1861), the "Stars and Bars".
 
The Confederacy (1861–1863), the "Stars and Bars".
 
The Confederacy (1863–1865), the "White Man's Flag".
 
The Confederacy (1865), the "Blood-Stained Banner".
 
Confederate Navy (1861–1863).
 
Confederate Navy (1863–1865).
 
Confederate Navy (1863–1865), the "Stainless Banner"
 
Confederate Army.
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    Confederate flags.

Seals

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United States of America

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    United States of America
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    United States Army

The Confederacy

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    The Confederacy
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    Confederate Navy

Leaders

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United States of America

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    First Reading of the Emancipation Proclamation of President Lincoln, 1864.
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      "The Peacemakers", 1868.
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    Cabinet of U.S. President Lincoln
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    Cabinet of U.S. President Lincoln

The Confederacy

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    The Confederate Cabinet.
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    Generals of the Confederate army.
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    The Confederate Cabinet.

Soldiers

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    Soldier
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    Union soldiers
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    "All Quiet Along the Potomac"
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      African-American soldiers at Dutch Gap, Virginia
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    McClellan riding through Frederick, Maryland
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    Battle of Antietam
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    4th United States Colored Infantry

Eastern Theater

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Land battles

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    Battle of (First) Bull Run, 1861
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    Battle of Malvern Hill, 1862
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    Battle of Antietam, 1862
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    Battle of Fredericksburg, 1862
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    A U.S. pontoon bridge crossing the Rappahannock River at the Battle of Fredericksburg, 1862
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    Battle of Chancellorsville, 1863
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    Battle of Gettysburg, 1863
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    Battle of the Wilderness, 1864
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    Battle of Cold Harbor, 1864
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    Battle of Cedar Creek, October 1864
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    Fall of Richmond, 1865
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    Surrender at Appomattox Court House (1865)
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    Battle of Hampton Roads (1862)
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    Action of USS Monitor against CSS Virginia (March 9, 1862)
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    Final Assault upon Fort Fisher, North Carolina, 1865

Photographs

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      Union artillery at Yorktown
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    Field hospital after the Battle of Savage's Station (1862)
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    President Lincoln and Gen. McClellan at Antietam
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    Union soldiers entrenched at the Battle of Chancellorsville (1863)
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      Confederate dead along Sunken Road, following the Battle of Chancellorsville (1863)
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    Dead soldiers at the Battle of Gettysburg
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    Collecting bones after the Battle of Cold Harbor
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    "The Dictator" mortar at Petersburg

Western Theater

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    Battle of Fort Donelson, 1862
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    Battle of Shiloh, February 1862
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    Battle of Chickamauga, 1863
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    Bombardment and Capture of Island Number Ten on the Mississippi River, April 7, 1862.
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    Battle on the lower Mississippi, April 24, 1862
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    The Total Annihilation of the Rebel Fleet by the Federal Fleet under Commodore Davis - June 6, 1862, off Memphis
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    CSS Arkansas running through the Union fleet above Vicksburg, Mississippi, July 15, 1862
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    Bombardment and capture of Fort Hindman, Arkansas Post, Ark. January 11, 1863
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    Admiral Porter's Fleet Running the Rebel Blockade of the Mississippi at Vicksburg, April 16, 1863
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    Confederates killing U.S. soldiers in the Fort Pillow Massacre, April 1864.
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    Confederates killing U.S. soldiers and civilians in the Fort Pillow Massacre, April 1864.
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    Battle of Kenesaw Mountain, June 1864.
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      Sketch of the Battle of Kenesaw Mountain by Alfred Waud
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    Siege of Atlanta
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    Destroyed Roundhouse at Atlanta
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    Confederate railroad being destroyed by U.S. forces during the Atlanta Campaign.
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    Sherman's march to the sea.
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Lower Seaboard Theater

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    Bombardment of Fort Sumter, April 1861.
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    Battle of Fort Wagner, July 1863
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    Soldiers of the U.S. Army (right) storm a position (Fort Wagner) of the Confederate army (left).
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    "The Old Flag Never Touched the Ground", depicting the Second Battle of Fort Wagner (1863)
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    Battle of Olustee (1864)
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    Battle of Olustee (1864)

Trans-Mississippi Theater and elsewhere

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    Battle of Wilson's Creek, August 1861.
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    Texan civilians murdered by Confederates at Gainesville, October 1862.
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    American ship USS Kearsarge battling the Confederate ship CSS Alabama at Cherbourg.

Ships and vessels

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    American ship, USS Monitor.
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    American ironclad gunboat USS Cairo.
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    American ironclad gunboat USS Choctaw.
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    American timberclad gunboat USS Conestoga.
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    American ship USS Cayuga, a screw steam gunboat.
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    Confederate ship, CSS Atlanta.

Technology of the war

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    Thaddeus S.C. Lowe's observation balloon "Intrepid" being inflated
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    Lowe's observation balloon "Intrepid"
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    United States Military Railroad and Lincoln's Presidential Car.
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    United States Military Railroad locomotive
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    Ambulance crew

Graves

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