American Civil War 1861–1865

Confederate States of America ⚔ Union

Key battles

• Battle of Cowpens (1781)
• Battle of Fort Sumter (1861)
• First Battle of Bull Run (1861)
• Battle of Wilson's Creek (1861)
• Battle of Big Bethel (1861)
• Battle of Belmont (1861)
• Battle of Antietam (1862)
• Battle of Fredericksburg (1862)
• Second Battle of Bull Run (1862)
• Battle of Shiloh (1862)
• Battle of Hampton Roads (1862)
• Seven Days Battles (1862)
• Battle of Seven Pines (1862)
• Vicksburg Campaign (1862)
• Battle of Fort Donelson (1862)
• Peninsula Campaign (1862)
• Shenandoah Valley Campaign (1862)
• Battle of Stones River (1862)
• Battle of Fort Henry (1862)
• Battle of South Mountain (1862)
• Battle of Perryville (1862)
• Siege of Corinth (1862)
• Battle of Malvern Hill (1862)
• Battle of Williamsburg (1862)
• Battle of Pea Ridge (1862)
• Battle of Cedar Mountain (1862)
• Battle of Glorieta Pass (1862)
• Battle of Harpers Ferry (1862)
• Siege of Yorktown (1862)
• First Battle of Kernstown (1862)
• Battle of Chantilly (1862)
• Capture of New Orleans (1862)
• Battle of Gettysburg (1863)
• Battle of Chancellorsville (1863)
• Battle of Chickamauga (1863)
• Siege of Vicksburg (1863)
• Chattanooga campaign (1863)
• Gettysburg campaign (1863)
• Battle of Brandy Station (1863)
• Battle of Arkansas Post (1863)
• Battle of Champion Hill (1863)
• Battle of Cold Harbor (1864)
• Sherman's March to the Sea (1864)
• Battle of the Wilderness (1864)
• Battle of Spotsylvania Court House (1864)
• Siege of Petersburg (1864)
• Battle of Nashville (1864)
• Atlanta Campaign (1864)
• Battle of Atlanta (1864)
• Battle of Mobile Bay (1864)
• Battle of Franklin (1864)
• Battle of Cedar Creek (1864)
• Battle of the Crater (1864)
• Battle of Yellow Tavern (1864)
• Battle of Westport (1864)
• Battle of Fort Pillow (1864)
• Battle of North Anna (1864)
• Battle of Appomattox Court House (1865)
• Battle of Five Forks (1865)
• Battle of Bentonville (1865)

Who lived through the American Civil War

Well-known people alive during 1861–1865:

• Karl Marx (1818–1883) — German-born philosopher (1818-1883)
• Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865) — president of the United States from 1861 to 1865 (1809-1865)
• Leo Tolstoy (1828–1910) — Russian author (1828–1910)
• Charles Darwin (1809–1882) — English naturalist and biologist (1809–1882)
• Victor Hugo (1802–1885) — French novelist, poet, dramatist and politician (1802–1885)
• Vincent van Gogh (1853–1890) — Dutch painter (1853–1890)
• Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) — German philosopher (1844-1900)
• Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1821–1881) — Russian novelist (1821–1881)
• Mark Twain (1835–1910) — American author and humorist (1835–1910)
• Thomas Edison (1847–1931) — American inventor and businessman (1847–1931)
• Sigmund Freud (1856–1939) — Austrian psychiatrist and founder of psychoanalysis (1856–1939)
• Charles Dickens (1812–1870) — English novelist and social critic (1812–1870)
• Rabindranath Tagore (1861–1941) — Bengali poet, philosopher and polymath (1861–1941)
• Hans Christian Andersen (1805–1875) — Danish writer and poet (1805–1875)
• Anton Chekhov (1860–1904) — Russian dramatist and author (1860–1904)
• Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) — Irish poet, playwright, and aesthete (1854-1900)
• Otto von Bismarck (1815–1898) — German statesman and Chancellor (1815-1898)
• Nikola Tesla (1856–1943) — Serbian-American engineer and inventor (1856–1943)
• Louis Pasteur (1822–1895) — French chemist and microbiologist (1822-1895)
• Richard Wagner (1813–1883) — German composer (1813–1883)
• Henry Ford (1863–1947) — American business magnate (1863–1947)
• Friedrich Engels (1820–1895) — German philosopher, sociologist and economist (1820–1895)
• Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840–1893) — Russian composer (1840–1893)
• Sarah Bernhardt (1844–1923) — French stage actress, painter and sculptor (1844–1923)
• Alfred Nobel (1833–1896) — Swedish chemist and inventor (1833–1896)

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