American Civil War

American  

noun

1. the war in the U.S. between the North and the South, 1861–65.

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Example Sentences

As a child, the history of the American Civil War fascinated me like nothing else.

From The Wall Street Journal

After that, he fought in the American Civil War & became a Navy engineer.

From Literature

Professor Kevin Waite had just finished a seminar on the run-up to the American Civil War on Friday morning when a student cautiously raised her hand.

From Los Angeles Times

The American Civil War was sometimes referred in the South as the War Between the States, and, later, the War of Northern Aggression.

From Los Angeles Times

He identifies with the violent abolitionist John Brown, who tried to start a slave revolt two years before the American Civil War and was executed.

From Salon