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Civil War

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Meaning of Civil war

An internecine war in which the opposing forces both belong to the same country or nation, e. g. the Revolutionary War prior to the Declaration of Independence, or the late Rebellion prior to the president’s proclamation of August 16, 1861.

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  • Brown, John; Cemeteries, Military; Cemeteries, War; Lincoln in the National Memory; War

    Confederate States of America; Grant, Ulysses S.; Lee, Robert E.; Lincoln, Abraham; Slavery

    Johnson, Andrew; Military Government; Texas v. White.

  • Further Reading

    Adams, George Washington. Doctors in Blue: The Medical History of the Union Army in the Civil War. New York: Henry Schuman, 1952.

    Farrell, James J. Inventing the American Way of Death, 1830-1920. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1980.

    Faust, Drew Gilpin. “The Civil War Soldier and the Art of Dying.” The Journal of Southern History 67, no. 1 (2001):3-40.

    Fredrickson, George M. The Inner Civil War: Northern Intellectuals and the Crisis of the Union. New York: Harper and Row, 1965.

    Jackson, Charles O., ed. Passing: The Vision of Death in America. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1977.

    Laderman, Gary. The Sacred Remains: American Attitudes toward Death, 1799-1883. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1996.

    Linderman, Gerald F. Embattled Courage: The Experience of Combat in the American Civil War. New York: Free Press, 1987.

    Linenthal, Edward. Sacred Ground: Americans and Their Battlefields. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1991.

    MacCloskey, Monro. Hallowed Ground: Our National Cemeteries. New York: Richards Rosen, 1969.

    Mayer, Robert G. Embalming: History, Theory, and Practice. Norwalk, CT: Appleton and Lange, 1990.

    McPherson, James M. Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era. New York: Ballantine, 1989.

    Miller, Randall M., Harry S. Stout, and Charles Reagan Wilson, eds. Religion and the American Civil War. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998.

    More Further Reading

    Moorhead, James H. American Apocalypse: Yankee Protestants and the Civil War, 1860 -1869. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1978.

    Paluden, Phillip Shaw. “A People’s Contest”: The Union and the Civil War, 1861-1865. New York: Harper and Row, 1988.

    Saum, Lewis O. The Popular Mood of America, 1860 -1890. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1990.

    Shattuck, Gardiner H., Jr. A Shield and a Hiding Place: The Religious Life of the Civil War Armies. Macon, GA: Mercer University Press, 1987.

    Sloane, David Charles. The Last Great Necessity: Cemeteries in American History. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1991.

    Slotkin, Richard. Regeneration through Violence: The Mythology of the American Frontier, 1600 -1860. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1973.

    Steiner, Peter E. Disease in the Civil War: Natural Biological Warfare, 1861-1865. Springfield, IL: C. C. Thomas, 1968.

    Vinovskis, Maris A., ed. Toward a Social History of the American Civil War: Exploratory Essays. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990.

    Wells, Robert V. Revolutions in Americans’ Lives: A Demographic Perspective on the History of Americans, Their Families, and Their Society. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1982.

    Wilson, Charles Reagan. Baptized in Blood: The Religion of the Lost Cause, 1865-1920. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1980.

    GARY M. LADERMAN

    Clinical Death

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    Coma

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    A conflict involving a rebellious force in charge of a significant portion of a state’s territory and people.

    A conflict involving a rebellious force in charge of a significant portion of a state’s territory and people.

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    Legal English Vocabulary: civil war in Spanish

    Online translation of the English legal term civil war into Spanish: guerra civil (English to Spanish translation) . More about legal dictionary from english to spanish online.

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