CivilWarTalk is an online community of Historians, Skirmishers, Re-enactors, and Enthusiasts dedicated to the exchange of ideas and information relating to all aspects of the American Civil War. Our goal is to become the leading resource for every researcher seeking historical information and opinions relating to the War Between the States.

The American Civil War, arguably the most traumatic event in the history of the United States, was fought from 1861 to 1865, and was the culmination of sectional issues which deeply divided the country between a pro-Federal government North and a pro-states rights, in the pro-slavery South, whose eleven states formed a breakaway government called the Confederate States of America. The costliest war in terms of human lives, the American Civil War claimed in excess of 620,000 battle or disease-related deaths - roughly two percent of the country's total population, and nearly more deaths than all other American wars combined.

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