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If an article is missing from the list, make sure it is tagged or categorized (e.g. Category:American Civil War task force articles) correctly and wait for the next update. See WP:RECOG for configuration options. Featured articles 1st Missouri Field Battery 4th Missouri Infantry Regiment (Confederate) 4th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment 6th Massachusetts Militia Regiment 8th Missouri Infantry Regiment (Confederate) 13th Missouri Cavalry Regiment (Confederate) 21st Massachusetts Infantry Regiment 22nd Massachusetts Infantry Regiment 68th New York Infantry Regiment William T. Anderson Chester A. Arthur CSS Baltic Battle of Corydon Battle of Lake Providence Judah P. Benjamin Luke P. Blackburn Oliver Bosbyshell John C. Breckinridge Political career of John C. Breckinridge John Y. Brown (politician, born 1835) Simon Bolivar Buckner Morgan Bulkeley Henry Cornelius Burnett James Wood Bush Battle of Byram's Ford Battle of Cane Hill Capon Chapel Capon Lake Whipple Truss Bridge John Bullock Clark Confederate government of Kentucky Jefferson Davis Neal Dow Duckport Canal Joseph B. Foraker Fort Southerland James A. Garfield Battle of Glasgow, Missouri Battle of Grand Gulf Ulysses S. Grant Grant's Canal Winfield Scott Hancock Benjamin Harrison Richard Hawes John Hay Rutherford B. Hayes Battle of Helena Thomas C. Hindman Second Battle of Independence Benjamin Jackson (sailor) Andrew Johnson J. R. Kealoha Landis's Missouri Battery Literary Hall Battle of Little Blue River James Longstreet Battle of Malvern Hill Battle of Marais des Cygnes Marmaduke–Walker duel USS Marmora (1862) James B. McCreary William McKinley USS New Ironsides First Battle of Newtonia Second Battle of Newtonia Nichols's Missouri Cavalry Regiment Henry Hoʻolulu Pitman Battle of Plum Point Bend Battle of Poison Spring Matthew Quay Samuel J. Randall Battle of Raymond William F. Raynolds The Red Badge of Courage Prince Romerson Romney Literary Society Battle of St. Charles Capture of Sedalia Elliott Fitch Shepard William Y. Slack Slayback's Missouri Cavalry Regiment Sloan–Parker House Thaddeus Stevens Harriet Tubman Valley View (Romney, West Virginia) Van Buren raid James B. Weaver Featured lists Assistant Commandant of the Marine Corps List of Confederate States Army officers educated at the United States Military Academy List of plantations in West Virginia A-Class articles 3rd Missouri Infantry Regiment (Confederate) 9th Missouri Sharpshooter Battalion 29th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment Barton S. 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Benjamin Franklin Tilley United States Zouave Cadets Good articles 1st Iowa Infantry Regiment 1st Louisiana Regulars Infantry Regiment 1st Missouri Infantry Regiment (Confederate) 1st West Virginia Cavalry Regiment 1st and 4th Missouri Infantry Regiment (Consolidated) 2nd Kansas Infantry Regiment 2nd Missouri Infantry Regiment (Confederate) 2nd West Virginia Cavalry Regiment 2nd and 6th Missouri Infantry Regiment (Consolidated) 3-inch ordnance rifle 3rd Missouri Infantry Regiment (Confederate) 3rd Missouri Light Battery 3rd United States Colored Cavalry Regiment 5th Massachusetts Militia Regiment 5th Missouri Infantry Regiment (Confederate) 5th New York Cavalry Regiment 6th Missouri Infantry Regiment (Confederate) 7th Alabama Infantry Regiment 9th Missouri Infantry Regiment 9th Missouri Sharpshooter Battalion 10-pounder Parrott rifle 10th Missouri Infantry Regiment (Confederate) 10th Texas Field Battery 11th Missouri Infantry Regiment (Confederate) 11th New York Infantry Regiment 12th Missouri Infantry Regiment (Confederate) 16th Missouri Infantry Regiment (Confederate) 18th Pennsylvania Cavalry Regiment 23rd Virginia Infantry Battalion 27th Wisconsin Infantry Regiment 28th Virginia battle flag 29th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment 91st Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment 116th Infantry Regiment (United States) 174th Infantry Brigade (United States) 211th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment 515 North Washington Street 1864 Washington Arsenal explosion USS Agamenticus Felix Agnus Edward Porter Alexander Joseph H. Allen John Albion Andrew Battle of Antietam Battle of Arkansas Post (1863) James Dillon Armstrong USS Atlanta (1861) Australia and the American Civil War Nathaniel P. Banks Battery White Battle of Big Black River Bridge Battle of Blackburn's Ford Battle of Cassville Battle of Cedar Creek Battle of Fayetteville (1862) Battle of Gettysburg, first day Battle of Marion Battle of Milliken's Bend Battle of Richmond, Louisiana Battle of Snyder's Bluff Battle of Bayou Fourche Battle of Bayou Meto Powhatan Beaty CSS Beaufort P. G. T. Beauregard Alexander Bielaski The Birth of a Nation Bixby letter Black Terror (ship) Bledsoe's Missouri Battery Thomas E. Bramlette William L. Brandon Battle of Brownsville, Arkansas USS Canonicus (1863) CSS Carondelet Louis H. Carpenter Battle of Charleston (1862) USS Chickasaw (1864) William S. Clark Powell Clayton Patrick Cleburne Colross John G. Coltart Cyrus B. Comstock Confederate Memorial (Romney, West Virginia) Confederate Memorial State Historic Site Confederate war finance John Collins Covell George Washington Cullum USS Curlew (1862) Daniel Sickles's leg William H. Davis (educator) Johnston de Peyster USS De Soto (1859) Arthur F. Devereux USS Dictator Battle of Droop Mountain Battle of Dry Wood Creek USS Dunderberg Frederick H. Dyer Educating the Disfranchised and Disinherited Oliver Edwards William Henry Egle Charles R. Ellet Equestrian statue of Charles Devens Equestrian statue of George B. McClellan Equestrian statue of John A. Logan Equestrian statue of John Brown Gordon Hugh Boyle Ewing First Battle of Newtonia Historic District Fishing Creek Confederacy Samuel Lightfoot Flournoy (politician) Fort Bayard (Washington, D.C.) Fort Curtis (Arkansas) Battle of Fort Davidson Fort Davidson Fort Greble Fort Jackson (Virginia) Fort Scott National Historic Site Ira Roe Foster CSS Fredericksburg Frémont Emancipation Samuel Gibbs French Battle of Front Royal USS Galena (1862) Battle of Galveston Harbor (1862) Battle of Garnett's & Golding's Farms CSS General Earl Van Dorn CSS General M. Jeff Thompson CSS General Polk Battle of Gettysburg Gettysburg Cyclorama Battle of Gilgal Church USS Glide (1862) Gone with the Wind (film) The Good, the Bad and the Ugly James Duncan Graham George S. Greene James Gwyn Battle of Hampton Roads Battle of Hancock Harris's Missouri Battery (1864) Benjamin Hardin Helm Thomas Hines History of the United States Navy Benjamin Lewis Hodge Indiana in the American Civil War Indianapolis in the American Civil War USS Indianola CSS Isondiga Battle of Jackson Jenkins' Trans-Allegheny Raid USS John P. Jackson George W. Johnson (governor) Joint Expedition Against Franklin CSS Junaluska Kalamazoo-class monitor Leopold Karpeles Mark Kellogg (reporter) USS Kickapoo (1864) Japanese ironclad Kōtetsu Lafayette Square (Buffalo, New York) The Last Hurrah: Sterling Price's Missouri Expedition of 1864 Battle of Lewisburg Second Battle of Lexington Abraham Lincoln Assassination of Abraham Lincoln Robert Todd Lincoln Little Rock campaign John Q. Loomis Lowry War M1841 6-pounder field gun M1841 12-pounder howitzer M1857 12-pounder Napoleon John B. Magruder USS Mahopac (1864) Stephen Mallory USS Manhattan (1863) Marais des Cygnes massacre USS Maria J. Carlton Marietta-class monitor Battle of Marmiton River Henry M. Mathews Charles Mattocks CSS Maurepas Marshall McDonald Battle of McDowell Thayer Melvin USS Miantonomoh (1863) Military history of Asian Americans William E. Miller (soldier, born 1836) USS Milwaukee (1864) Milwaukee-class monitor Battle of Mine Creek CSS Missouri USS Monadnock (1863) USS Monitor Alexander W. Monroe Battle of Moorefield CSS Muscogee Music of the American Civil War USS Neosho (1863) Neosho-class monitor CSS New Orleans New York City draft riots Joseph B. O'Hagan USS Oneota (1864) USS Onondaga (1863) CSS Oregon USS Osage (1863) Osage Battalion USS Ozark (1863) CSS Pamlico Isaac Parsons (Confederate military officer) Peace Monument J. Johnston Pettigrew CSS Pickens George Pickett Pickett's Charge Battle of Plains Store CSS Pontchartrain John Pope (general) William Henry Powell (soldier) Battle of Prairie Grove Price's Lost Campaign: The 1864 Invasion of Missouri USS Puritan (1864) USS R. B. Forbes James S. Rains USS Roanoke (1855) Battle of Roan's Tan Yard Robert E. Lee on Traveller USS Romeo Romney Classical Institute USS Saugus (1863) CSS Scorpion Scorpion-class ironclad Equestrian statue of Winfield Scott Second Battle of Newtonia Site Shenandoah 1862 Battle of Shepherdstown James Shields (politician, born 1806) Battle of Shiloh USS Sidney C. Jones Siege of Knoxville Sinking Creek Raid First Battle of Springfield CSS Squib Squib-class torpedo boat Fort Stanton (Washington, D.C.) Statue of George H. Perkins Statue of John Aaron Rawlins Statue of William Francis Bartlett Steele's Greenville expedition Stephenson Grand Army of the Republic Memorial George H. Steuart (brigadier general) Charles Pomeroy Stone Stonewall Jackson's arm Alfred Sully USS Tecumseh (1863) Equestrian statue of George Henry Thomas CSS Tuscarora Voltaire P. Twombly United States Zouave Cadets USS Varuna (1861) Siege of Vicksburg Wade's Missouri Battery Francis Amasa Walker Wappocomo (Romney, West Virginia) J. H. Hobart Ward Warrenton Junction Raid Whistling Dick (cannon) Christian Streit White John Baker White (clerk of court) Robert White (attorney general) Battle of White Sulphur Springs Wigwag (flag signals) Battle of the Wilderness CSS Wilmington Henry Wilson Battle of Wilson's Creek Wilson's Creek National Battlefield Third Battle of Winchester USS Winnebago (1863) Bradley Winslow CSS Winslow Wirgman Building Wytheville Raid Harry Yount

American Civil War task force assessment statistics Articles Lists FA 86 FL 3 A 20 AL 0 GA 276     B 1,154 BL 18 C 3,493 CL 41 Start 6,654 List 155 Stub 1,735     Total 13,418 Total 217 Other pages Category 777 Disambig 113 Draft 2 File 97 Portal 139 Project 3 Redirect 254 SIA 9 Template 193 User 5 Total 1,592 Unassessed 1 Statistics ω 62,679 Ω 4.597 category

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James Ashby (soldier) • Benjamin D. Fearing • James B. Speers • Charles S. Steedman • Battle of Barton's Station • Lawrence P. Graham • Frederick S. Sturmbaugh • Davis Tillson • Action at Nineveh (currently a redirect) • International response to the American Civil War • Spain and the American Civil War • Savannah Campaign Confederate order of battle • Native Americans in the American Civil War (currently disambiguation after deletion) • Battle of Lafayette • Battle of Sunshine Church • Requested American Civil War Medal of Honor recipients

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Battle of Boonsborough • Battle of Guard Hill • Battle of Rice's Station • Battle of Simmon's Bluff • Battle of Summit Point • Charleston Arsenal • Edenton Bell Battery • First Battle of Dalton • Blackshear Prison • Edwin Forbes • Hiram B. Granbury • Henry Thomas Harrison • Louis Hébert (colonel) • Benjamin G. Humphreys • Maynard Carbine • Hezekiah G. Spruill • Smith carbine • Edward C. Walthall • Confederate States Secretary of the Navy • Confederate States Secretary of the Treasury • David Henry Williams • Battle of Rome Cross Roads • Delaware in the American Civil War • Ironclad Board • United States Military Railroad • Kansas in the American Civil War • Rufus Daggett • Ebenezer Magoffin • Confederate Quartermaster-General's Department • First Corps, Army of Northern Virginia • Francis Laurens Vinton • Henry Maury • Smith's Expedition to Tupelo • Other American Civil War battle stubs • Other American Civil War stubs

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Battle of Lone Jack • Preston Pond, Jr. • Melancthon Smith

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1st Regiment New York Mounted Rifles and 7th Regiment New York Volunteer Cavalry

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1st Alabama Cavalry Regiment (Union) • 4th Maine Battery • 33rd Ohio Infantry • 110th New York Volunteer Infantry • Battle of Hatcher's Run • Camp Dennison • Confederate colonies • CSS Resolute • Dakota War of 1862 • Florida in the American Civil War • Ethan A. Hitchcock (general) • Fort Harker (Alabama) • Gettysburg (1993 film) • Iowa in the American Civil War • Second Battle of Fort Sumter • Samuel Benton

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• Grand Unified Timeline of Human History • An ambitious Chronology project at Meta
• Timeline of events leading to the American Civil War • A precursor to the planned Timeline of the American Civil War and Timeline of the Reconstruction (American Civil War) (See discussions)
• Timeline of Kentucky in the Civil War • Example of a contextually scoped timeline skeleton
• Image:American Civil War Battles by Theater, Year.png • A nice public domain map by brian0918 of the USA, showing battles, theatres and years of the Civil War.
• Harper's Weekly Original Civil War Newspapers
• A Concise History of the War: Designed to Accompany Perrine's New Topographical War Map of the Southern States, with an Introduction and Statistical Appendix, Comp. from Authentic Sources - A book that provides a brief description for every battle from 1861-1863. Available to read on Google Books.
• A compendium of the War of the Rebellion, Volume 1 - Similar to the aforementioned book, but with battles listed by state and listing the units involved.
• Shapell Manuscript Foundation some good CW primary documents; have to use the search bar to find stuff though...

Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper was a general illustrated news magazine out of New York City. There are numerous articles and wood engravings of events before, during, and after the American Civil War (many based on war artist sketches). Note that due to the news cycle for images at the time, the corresponding illustrations may be weeks or months after the event in question occurred. Likewise, many place names are misspelled and idiosyncratic or uncommon names for battles are used. NOTE: To extract an image at high-resolution, zoom in to the highest magnification in the browser-viewer, then right-click save.

• Vols. 9-10 (Jan. - Nov. 1860)
• Vols. 11-12 (Nov. 1860 - Nov. 1861)
• Vols. 13-14 (Nov. 1861 - Sept. 1862)
• Vols. 15-16 (Sept. 1862-Sept. 1863)
• Vols. 17-18 (Jan. - Sept. 1864)
• Vols. 19-20 (Sept. 1864-Sept. 1865)
• Vols. 21-22 (Sept. 1865-Setp. 1866)

Selections of the various wood engravings were later collected and presented in the following volumes, where those that are selected are usually in more-pristine condition than in the original newspaper (there is less newsprint bleed):

• Incidents of the Civil War in America (1862)
• The Soldier in Our Civil War (1893), Vol. I and Vol. II
• Frank Leslie's Scenes and Portraits of the Civil War (1894)

Harper's Weekly was a rival illustrated newspaper to Frank Leslie's, published in New York City and operating in much the same format. Note that due to the news cycle for images at the time, the corresponding illustrations may be weeks or months after the event in question occurred. Likewise, many place names are misspelled and idiosyncratic or uncommon names for battles are used. NOTE: To extract an image at high-resolution, zoom in to the highest magnification in the browser-viewer, then right-click save.

The Official Records of the War of the Rebellion are a collection of primary sources of the civil war in the form of reports and correspondence of the armies and navies of the Union and the Confederacy. Material from both sides was collected during and in the decades after the war and edited into over 100 volumes.

• The War of the Rebellion: a Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies @ Cornell University / HathiTrust (Master index, online hosting and download)
  • The War of the Rebellion: a Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies @ Ohio State University (Inter-volume search engine and online hosting)
• Official Records of the Union and Confederate Navies in the War of the Rebellion @ Cornell University / HathiTrust (Master index, online hosting and download)