Who were the two sides in the American Civil War?

American Civil War, also called War Between the States, four-year war (1861–65) between the United States and 11 Southern states that seceded from the Union and formed the Confederate States of America.

Who were the Yankees in the Civil War?

New England includes the states of Connecticut, Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, and Rhode Island. During the Civil War, and even after the war came to an end, Yankee was a term used by Southerners to describe their rivals from the Union, or northern, side of the conflict.

Why did the South call the North Yankees?

During the Civil War, and even after the war came to an end, Yankee was a term used by Southerners to describe their rivals from the Union, or northern, side of the conflict.

Who fought for the Union in the Civil War?

David M. fought for the UNION and has a very unique story! Joseph Henry C. was born in 1817 in Haywood County, North Carolina and fought for Company G of the Tennessee 3rd Cavalry for the UNION side. Joseph Henry was captured and suffered for 18 months in the Civil War’s worst prison, Cahaba Prison in Alabama.

Did Southern slaves and freedmen really fight for the Confederacy?

Even 150 years after it started, the Civil War is still the battleground for controversial ideas. One of them is the notion that thousands of Southern slaves and freedmen fought willingly and loyally on the side of the Confederacy.

Were Black Confederates really enamored of the south’s cause?

But unless readers think that black Confederates were truly enamored of the South’s cause, Stauffer related the case of John Parker, a slave forced to build Confederate barricades and later to join the crew of a cannon firing grapeshot at Union troops at the First Battle of Bull Run.

Was the north or South more powerful during the Civil War?

At the beginning of the Civil War, 22 million people lived in the North and 9 million people (nearly 4 million of whom were slaves) lived in the South. The North also had more money, more factories, more horses, more railroads, and more farmland. On paper, these advantages made the United States much more powerful than the Confederate States.