From Wikipedia, Date April 12, 1861 April 9, 1865 Location Principally in the Southern United States Result Union victory; Reconstruction; slavery abolished Belligerents United States of America (“Union”) Theaters of the American Civil War Union blockade Eastern Western Lower Seaboard Trans-Mississippi Pacific Coast The American Civil War (1861 1865), also known as the War Between the States and several other names, was a civil war in the United States of America. Eleven Southern slave states declared their secession from the US and formed the Confederate States of America (the Confederacy). Led by Jefferson Davis, they fought against the US federal government (the “Union”), which was supported by all the free states and the five border slave states. In the presidential election of 1860, the Republican Party, led by Abraham Lincoln, had campaigned against the expansion of slavery beyond the states in which it already existed. The Republican victory in that election resulted in seven Southern states declaring their secession from the Union even before Lincoln took office on March 4, 1861. Both the outgoing and incoming US administrations rejected secession, regarding it as rebellion. Hostilities began on April 12, 1861, when Confederate forces attacked a US military installation at Fort Sumter in South Carolina. Lincoln responded by calling for a volunteer army from each state, leading to declarations of secession by four more Southern slave states. Both sides raised …

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