AMERICAN CIVIL WAR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does American Civil War mean? 

• AMERICAN CIVIL WAR (noun)
  The noun AMERICAN CIVIL WAR has 1 sense:

1. civil war in the United States between the North and the South; 1861-1865

  Familiarity information: AMERICAN CIVIL WAR used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• AMERICAN CIVIL WAR (noun)

Meaning:

Civil war in the United States between the North and the South; 1861-1865

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

American Civil War; United States Civil War; War between the States

Instance hypernyms:

civil war (a war between factions in the same country)

Meronyms (parts of "American Civil War"):

Wilderness Campaign (American Civil War; a series of indecisive battles in Grant's campaign (1864) against Lee in which both armies suffered terrible losses)

siege of Vicksburg; Vicksburg (a decisive battle in the American Civil War (1863); after being besieged for nearly seven weeks the Confederates surrendered)

battle of Pittsburgh Landing; battle of Shiloh; Shiloh (the second great battle of the American Civil War (1862); the battle ended with the withdrawal of Confederate troops but it was not a Union victory)

Petersburg; Petersburg Campaign (the final campaign of the American Civil War (1864-65); Union forces under Grant besieged and finally defeated Confederate forces under Lee)

Kennesaw Mountain (battle of the American Civil War (1864); Union forces under William Tecumseh Sherman were repulsed by Confederate troops under Joseph Eggleston Johnston)

Hampton Roads (a naval battle of the American Civil War (1862); the indecisive battle between the Monitor and the Merrimac)

Battle of Gettysburg; Gettysburg (a battle of the American Civil War (1863); the defeat of Robert E. Lee's invading Confederate army was a major victory for the Union)

Battle of Fredericksburg; Fredericksburg (an important battle in the American Civil War (1862); the Union's army under A. E. Burnside was defeated by the Confederate army under Robert E. Lee)

battle of Chickamauga; Chickamauga (a Confederate victory in the American Civil War (1863); Confederate forces under Braxton Bragg defeated Union forces)

battle of Chattanooga; Chattanooga (in the American Civil War (1863) the Union armies of Hooker, Thomas, and Sherman under the command of Ulysses S. Grant won a decisive victory over the Confederate Army under Braxton Bragg)

Chancellorsville (a major battle in the American Civil War (1863); the Confederates under Robert E. Lee defeated the Union forces under Joseph Hooker)

Battle of Bull Run; Bull Run (either of two battles during the American Civil War (1861 and 1862); Confederate forces defeated the Federal army in both battles)

Atlanta; battle of Atlanta (a siege in which Federal troops under Sherman cut off the railroads supplying the city and then burned it; 1864)

Domain region:

America; the States; U.S.; U.S.A.; United States; United States of America; US; USA (North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean; achieved independence in 1776)