Definitions
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- proper noun A war fought in the
United States between 1861 and 1865, between the Northern states (Union ) and Southern states (Confederacy ).
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun civil war in the United States between the North and the South; 1861-1865
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Examples
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The close of the American Civil War set loose many Irish veterans who eagerly enlisted in the cause of "the Irish Republic."
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The history of the American Civil War has become lost in the "Myth" of the American Civil War.
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Gettysburg is considered the turning point of the American Civil War by some historians; others argue the South was doomed after Antietam in 1862.
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His book is about the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-05 but he's talking about the American Civil War - which some of his readers could remember having fought … … and today it is 2008 - and we have what these guys would have considered science-fiction warfare going on in Iraq War II and the Afghan Conflict ….
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Over 130 years ago following the American Civil War, Julia Ward Howe wrote the
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When the American Civil War started, Confederate Robert E. Lee owned no slaves.
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