Union (American Civil War)
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The Union is a term used to refer to the federal government and loyal states of the United States during the American Civil War. Its military forces and civilian population resisted the secession of t
The Union had large advantages in men and resources at the start of the war, and the ratio grew steadily in its favor as the war progressed. In the chart, "cauc men" means white men (Caucasian).[image reference needed]
Lincoln met with his Cabinet for the first reading of the Emancipation Proclamation draft on July 22, 1862.
An anti-Lincoln Copperhead Democrats pamphlet from 1864
Union soldiers on Mason's Island, later renamed Theodore Roosevelt Island, on the Potomac River in 1861
The Confederate States of America, also known as the Confederate States or the Confederacy, was a republic in the Southern United States from 1861 to 1865, unrecognized as a sovereign nation by either
Union (American Civil War)
…States during the American Civil War. Its military forces and civilian population resisted the secession of the Southern slave states that formed the Confederate States of America following the 1860 election of Abraham Lincoln as president of the United States. Lincoln's administration asserted the permanency of the federal…
The inauguration of Jefferson Davis in Montgomery, Alabama
10-cent U.S. 1861
20-cent C.S. 1863
Elias Boudinot, a Cherokee secessionist and Confederate Representative in the Indian Territory of present-day Oklahoma