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Introduction
American Civil War: April 12, 1861 – April 9,
1865
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The Modern Wars:
Crimea (1854-1856)
American Civil War
(1861-1865)
Austro-Prussian
(1866)
Franco-Prussian
(1870-1871)
Colonial Imperial Wars
I (1880s-1910s)
World War I
(1914-1918)
World War II
(1939-1945)
Colonial Liberation
Wars II (1950s-1970s)
Korea (1950 –
1953)
Vietnam (1959 – 1975)
Iraq I
(1991)
Iraq II (2003 -- ?) |
Civil War Casualties
~620,000 Union and Confederate soldiers
United States
of America (USA)
- 120,000 killed in action
- 240,000 died of other causes
- ~360,000 TOTAL Union dead and/or missing
Confederate States
(CSA)
- 95,000 killed in action
- 165,000 died of other causes
- ~260,000 TOTAL Confederate
dead and/or missing.
William Seward
Historiography
‘irrepressible-conflict’
“Future Shock”
agricultural vs industrial civilization
economic determinism
Second American Revolution
Hacker-Beard Thesis
free-labor ideal
ethno-cultural divide
neo-Confederate
revisionists
Constitutional Federalism vs
State Rights
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