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This is a page intended to gather materials for the portal to the American Civil War subject matter.

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Only needs to be written once, but may provoke controversy, depending on the wording. It's probably safest to pull a stable version of the lead section from your base article for this.

The American Civil War (1861–1865) was a bitter sectional conflict between the United States of America and the Confederate States of America, formed of eleven southern states' governments which moved to secede from the Union after the 1860 election of Abraham Lincoln as President of the United States. While many on both sides believed the war would be resolved quickly by aggressive tactical military action, the unforeseen rapid evolution of military science and the conflict's immense social, economic and human costs soon dashed such notions. The North's victory was eventually achieved by leveraging advantages in population, manufacturing and logistics and through strategic naval blockade preventing the Confederacy from access to the world's markets.

In many ways the conflict's central issues (the role of federal government under the constitution, states' rights, treatment of African-Americans) are still not completely resolved; the Confederate Army's April 9, 1865 surrender at Appomattox did little to change many Americans' attitudes about threats posed by a powerful central government, the passage of the Thirteenth, Fourteenth and Fifteenth constitutional amendments in the years immediately after the war couldn't change attitudes of racial prejudice prevalent among Americans of the day, and the process of Reconstruction couldn't heal the deeply personal wounds inflicted by four brutal years of war and more than 970,000 casualties (3 percent of population), including approximately 560,000 deaths. As a result, controversies affected by the war's unresolved social, political, economic and racial tensions continue to shape contemporary American thought. The causes of the war, the reasons for the outcome, and even the name of the war itself, are subjects of much controversy, even today.

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1. Abraham Lincoln
2. William Tecumseh Sherman
3. Battle of Hampton Roads
4. Dixie (song)
5. Dred Scott v. Sandford
6. Gettysburg Address
7. Ku Klux Klan

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1. William Mahone
2. Charles Sumner
3. Civil War token

Former Featured articles

1. Origins of the American Civil War

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1. Confederate flags

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Confederate:

1. Image:Navy Jack CSA.jpg
2. Image:South Carolina Jan 1861.svg
3. Image:Mississippi 1861.svg
4. Image:North Carolina 1861.svg
5. Image:Virginia 1861.svg
6. Image:Louisiana Pelican Flag 1861.svg
7. Image:Georgia 1861 red.svg
8. Image:Florida 1861.svg
9. Image:CSA Flag 2.7.1861-28.11.1861.svg
10. Image:Alabama 1861 Obverse.svg
11. Image:Alabama 1861 Reverse.svg

Union

1. Image:US 33 Star Flag.svg
2. Image:US 33 Star GreatStar Flag.svg
3. Image:US 34 Star Flag.svg
4. Image:US 35 Star Flag.svg

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Selected battles for future use

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1. Battle of Chancellorsville
2. Battle of Fort Donelson

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1. Battle of Gettysburg

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1. Battle of Antietam
2. Third Battle of Chattanooga
3. Battle of Chickamauga
4. Battle of Cold Harbor
5. Battle of the Crater
6. Battle of Five Forks
7. Battle of Fredericksburg
8. Morgan's Raid
9. Battle of Pea Ridge
10. Battle of Perryville
11. Siege of Petersburg
12. Pickett's Charge
13. Seven Days Battles
14. Battle of Shiloh
15. Battle of Spotsylvania Court House
16. Battle of Stones River
17. Battle of Vicksburg
18. Battle of Wilson's Creek

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1. Battle of Atlanta
2. Battle of Fort Sumter
3. Battle of Franklin II
4. Battle of Seven Pines
5. Battle of the Wilderness

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1. Image:Fort-Jefferson Dry-Tortugas.jpg
2. Image:Walt Whitman edit 2.jpg

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1. Category:American Civil War people
2. Category:American Civil War ships

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1. Image:Robert Edward Lee.jpg
2. Image:Jackson-Stonewall-LOC.jpg
3. Image:Lincoln and McClellan 1862-10-03.jpg
4. Image:Confederate Dead at Devil's Den Gettysburg.jpg

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4. Image:Ap hill.jpg
5. Image:Alexander Hamilton Stephens.jpg
6. Image:Lee.jpg
7. Image:Jesse james portrait.jpg
8. Image:President-Jefferson-Davis.jpg
9. Image:ShermanAtlanta.jpg
10. Image:Bodies on the battlefield at antietam.jpg

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2. Image:Virginia-mortar-dictator.gif
3. Image:Petersburg crater union trench.jpg
4. Image:Petersburg crater aftermath 1865.jpg
5. Image:Lowe balloon photo.jpg
6. Image:Lowe balloon photo gaines mill.jpg
7. Image:Cheval de frise petersburg civil war 02598.jpg
8. Image:A sharpshooter's last sleep - Gardner.jpg
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10. Image:NWDNS-165-SB-26 Harpers Ferry Virginia.jpg
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12. Image:Uss choctaw h55218.jpg
13. Image:USS Conestoga h55321.jpg
14. Image:Richard Taylor.jpg
15. Image:Breckinridge John Cabell 1821-1875 .jpg
16. Image:Leutnant 1847.jpg
17. Image:Major 1851.jpg
18. Image:Teacher 1855.jpg
19. Image:Professor 1857.jpg
20. Image:Little Round Top 1863.jpg
21. Image:Union breastworks Culp's Hill Gettysburg.jpg

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2. Image:Battle of the Wilderness.png
3. Image:Battle of Vicksburg, Kurz and Allison.png
4. Image:Rosecrans at Stones River.jpg
5. Image:Battle of Spottsylvania.png
6. Image:BattleBetweenMonitorMerrimac2.png
7. Image:Battle of Fredericksburg, Dec 13, 1862.png
8. Image:Battle of Franklin II.png
9. Image:Battle of Fort Donelson.png
10. Image:Battle of Chattanooga III.png

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2. Image:Battle of Pea Ridge.png
3. Image:Five forks.jpg
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1. Image:Battle of Seven Pines, or Fair Oaks.png
2. Image:Battle of Perryville.png
3. Image:Battle of Mobile Bay.png
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2. Image:Battle of Atlanta.png
3. Image:Battle of Antietam.png
4. Image:Battle of Fort Hindman.png
5. Image:Battle of Memphis I.png
6. Image:Memphis h42367.jpg
7. Image:Island no10 kn00969.jpg
8. Image:Battle of Aquia Creek.png
9. Image:Vicksburg h76557k.jpg
10. Image:Monitor virginia h45973.jpg
11. Image:USS Cayuga (1861).jpg
12. Image:Andersonville birdseye ransom.jpg
13. Image:CSS Arkansas h73378.jpg
14. Image:CSS Texas plan.jpg
15. Image:CSS David drawing.jpg
16. Image:CSSVirginia1862.1.ws.jpg
17. Image:Blockade connecticut plan civil war cartoon.jpg
18. Image:WoodVIron.jpg
19. Image:USSMonitorPlan1862.ws.jpg
20. Image:USS Monitor - H58758.jpg
21. Image:Gen Shields at Winchester.jpg
22. Image:Battle of Corinth II.jpg
23. Image:ConfederateStatesofAmericaSeal.jpg
24. Image:OaklandCemetery-LionoftheConfederacy.jpg
25. Image:Godsavethesouth.jpeg
26. Image:Cumberland rammed by Merrimac.png
27. Image:Durand-Brager- Battle of the USS Kearsarge and the CSS Alabama 1864.gif
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29. Image:USS Kearsarge CSS Alabama.jpg
30. Image:USS Galena watercolor NH59541.jpg
31. Image:Plündernde Nordstaatler.jpg
32. Image:Jefferson Davis Statue.jpg
33. Image:JamesWallaceCookeCSN.jpg
34. Image:General Robert E. Lee.jpg
35. Image:Portrait Robert E. Lee.jpg
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1. Category:Maps of the American Civil War
2. Category:Old maps of the American Civil War
3. Category:Battle of Chancellorsville
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5. Category:Battle of Gettysburg
6. Category:Jackson's Valley Campaign 1862
7. Category:Peninsula Campaign

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1. Image:Battle of Rich Mountain.png
2. Image:Map of the Battle of the seven days.jpg
3. Image:Little Round Top2.png
4. Image:PeninsulaCampaign.jpg
5. Image:Schlacht von Philippi.jpg
6. Image:Scott-anaconda.jpg
7. Image:Spotsylvaniakarte.GIF
8. Image:WegnachSpotsylvaniaCH.GIF
9. Image:American Civil War Battles by Theater, Year.png
10. Image:Antietam Battle Map.jpg
11. Image:Atlanta 05-09 64.jpeg
12. Image:Map25tn.jpg
13. Image:Map of CSA 4.png
14. Image:Battle of Bull Run.jpg

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1. California in the Civil War
2. Illinois in the Civil War
3. Ohio in the Civil War

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1. Alabama in the Civil War
2. Arizona in the Civil War
3. Colorado in the Civil War
4. Florida in the Civil War
5. Georgia in the Civil War
6. Kansas in the Civil War
7. Kentucky in the Civil War
8. Maryland in the Civil War
9. Missouri in the Civil War
10. Pennsylvania in the Civil War
11. South Carolina in the Civil War
12. Tennessee in the Civil War
13. Texas in the Civil War
14. Vermont in the Civil War
15. Virginia in the Civil War
16. West Virginia in the Civil War

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1. Massachusetts in the Civil War
2. North Carolina in the Civil War
3. Washington, D.C. in the Civil War

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1. Springfield Model 1855 Rifle
2. Springfield Model 1861
3. Henry rifle
4. Model 1842 Musket
5. M1819 Hall rifle
6. Sharps Rifle
7. Rodman gun
8. Parrott rifle
9. Colt Army Model 1860
10. Minié ball
11. Spencer repeating rifle
12. Model 1832 Foot Artillery Sword
13. Model 1840 Light Artillery Sabre
14. Canister shot
15. Columbiad
16. Ironclad warship

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1. Fayetteville rifle
2. Pepper-box

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I don't know how feasible it will be to actually use new articles; how many tend to be created for ACW topics? If you don't use new articles, you can set this up in advance as well, but you'll need to find some interesting facts. Selected facts for future use

1. Civil War token
2. Union Army Balloon Corps

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This'll need to be maintained by hand, but the rate at which you need to update things is mostly up to you. If you list a bunch of obscure articles that need to be created, for example, it's unlikely that the list will need to change all that often. The task force may be able to help significantly with this.

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1. Portal:American Civil War/Archive1
2. Portal:American Civil War/box-header/Archive1
3. Portal:American Civil War/Intro/Archive1
4. Portal:American Civil War/Featured article/Archive1
5. Portal:American Civil War/Did you know/Archive1
6. Portal:American Civil War/American Civil War news/Archive1
7. Portal:American Civil War/Selected biography/Archive1
8. Portal:American Civil War/Selected article/Archive1
9. Portal:American Civil War/American Civil War topics/Archive1
10. Portal:American Civil War/Things you can do/Archive1
11. Portal:American Civil War/Related portals/Archive1
12. Portal:American Civil War/WikiProjects/Archive1

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1. Portal talk:American Civil War
2. Portal talk:American Civil War/box-header
3. Portal talk:American Civil War/Intro
4. Portal talk:American Civil War/Featured article
5. Portal talk:American Civil War/Did you know
6. Portal talk:American Civil War/American Civil War news
7. Portal talk:American Civil War/Selected biography
8. Portal talk:American Civil War/Selected article
9. Portal talk:American Civil War/American Civil War topics
10. Portal talk:American Civil War/Things you can do
11. Portal talk:American Civil War/Related portals
12. Portal talk:American Civil War/WikiProjects