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    The American Civil War significantly affected Tennessee, with every county witnessing combat. It was a divided state, with the Eastern counties harboring...
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    The western theater of the American Civil War encompassed major military operations in the states of Alabama, Georgia, Florida, Mississippi, North Carolina...
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    The American Civil War (April 12, 1861 – May 26, 1865; also known by other names) was a civil war in the United States between the Union ("the North")...
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    Battles of the American Civil War were fought between April 12, 1861, and May 12–13, 1865 in 19 states, mostly Confederate (Alabama, Arkansas, Florida...
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    border state of key importance in the American Civil War. It officially declared its neutrality at the beginning of the war, but after a failed attempt by...
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  • The bibliography of the American Civil War comprises books that deal in large part with the American Civil War. There are over 60,000 books on the war...
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  • The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to the American Civil War: American Civil Warcivil war in the United States of...
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    33 near Nashville, during the American Civil War, while his father was serving as military governor of Tennessee. Charles Johnson was remembered his mother's...
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  • German-Americans were the largest ethnic contingent to fight for the Union in the American Civil War[citation needed]. More than 200,000 native-born Germans...
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  • drove off the Union with minimal casualties, and Grant did not pursue further. Tennessee in the American Civil War White, Robert D. "Messages of the Governors...
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    The conclusion of the American Civil War commenced with the articles of surrender agreement of the Army of Northern Virginia on April 9, at Appomattox...
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    an American politician, attorney, and planter who was a candidate for President of the United States in the election of 1860. One of Tennessee's most...
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    The Cherokee in the American Civil War were active in the Trans-Mississippi and Western Theaters. In the east, Confederate Cherokees led by William Holland...
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  • article pertains to the history of Nashville, the state capital of Tennessee. Native Americans had not lived in the area in the century before a frontier...
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    Alabama was central to the Civil War, with the secession convention at Montgomery, the birthplace of the Confederacy, inviting other slaveholding states...
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    who address the origins of the American Civil War agree that the preservation of the institution of slavery was the principal aim of the 11 Southern states...
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    eventually mounted and redesignated 1st Tennessee Cavalry Regiment, in the Western theater of the American Civil War. In March 1862 he left from Washington...
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    Jack Hinson (category People of Tennessee in the American Civil War)
    Between-the-Rivers region of Tennessee and Kentucky during the American Civil War. Before the war, Hinson was a prosperous land and slave-owner of Scotch-Irish...
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    During the American Civil War, the United States (U.S.) was referred to as the Union, also known colloquially as the North, after eleven Southern slave...
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    example, the Old West subperiod is sometimes used by historians regarding the time from the end of the American Civil War in 1865 to the when the U.S. census...
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    The Army of the Tennessee was a Union army in the Western Theater of the American Civil War, named for the Tennessee River. It appears that the term "Army...
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    During the American Civil War, North Carolina joined the Confederacy with some reluctance, mainly due to the presence of Unionist sentiment within the state...
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    During the American Civil War (1861–1865), Washington, D.C., the capital city of the United States, was the center of the Union war effort, which rapidly...
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    for the U.S. and its government existed in the more rural areas. Louisiana declared that it had seceded from the Union on January 26, 1861. Civil-War era...
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    Nickajack (category Tennessee in the American Civil War)
    The area known as "Nickajack" generally refers to the rugged Appalachian foothills in East Tennessee and northeastern Alabama. "Nickajack" is a corruption...
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    participated in the American Civil War as a member of the Confederate States of America. It had been admitted to the United States as a slave state in 1845. In January...
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    In the American Civil War (1861–65), the border states were slave states that did not secede from the Union. They were Delaware, Maryland, Kentucky, and...
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    African Americans, including former slaves, served in the American Civil War. The 186,097 black men who joined the Union Army included 7,122 officers and...
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    widows of veterans of the American Civil War (fought 1861–1865) are known to have survived into the 21st century. All were born in the 20th century and married...
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    Clay Allison (category People of Tennessee in the American Civil War)
    sheep to support the family. Allison helped on the family farm near Waynesboro, Tennessee, until the Civil War began, enlisting in the Confederate Army...
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