Union (American Civil War)

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Map of the division of the states during the Civil War. Blue represents Union states, including those admitted during the war; light blue represents Union states which permitted slavery (border states). Red shows Confederate states. Unshaded areas were not states before or during the Civil War.

During the American Civil War, the Union meant the federal government of the United States, which was supported by the twenty free states and five border states. It was opposed by 11 Southern slave states. The Union states included the Western states of California, Oregon, and (after 1864) Nevada. They also included states then called the "Old Northwest" and now usually thought to be part of the Midwest. However, the Union has been also often called "the North", both then and now. The Union states were mostly richer and more industrialized.

The Union states were:

• California
• Connecticut
• Delaware
• Illinois
• Indiana
• Iowa
• Kansas
• Kentucky
• Maine
• Maryland
• Massachusetts
• Michigan
• Minnesota
• Missouri
• Nevada
• New Hampshire
• New Jersey
• New York
• Ohio
• Oregon
• Pennsylvania
• Rhode Island
• Vermont
• West Virginia
• Wisconsin

Union (American Civil War) Media

• Sin escudo.svg

  This is a filler for wherever a coat of arms is missing (in an infobox, for example). – You can find more information about coats of arms on WikiProject Heraldry and vexillology.

• Sin escudo.svg

  This is a filler for wherever a coat of arms is missing (in an infobox, for example). – You can find more information about coats of arms on WikiProject Heraldry and vexillology.

• Four Ruffles and Flourishes and Hail Columbia.ogg

  "Hail, Columbia", the former (unofficial) national anthem of the United States of America, preceded by four ruffles and flourishes as would be played for the Vice President of the United States, performed by the United States Navy Band Ceremonial Band. Featured on the 1990s album Music For Honors and Ceremonies.

• Rufst du, mein Vaterland (1938).oga

  Instrumental music without lyrics: Rufst du, mein Vaterland also known as God Save the King, Íslands minni, Kongesangen and Oben am jungen Rhein (1938)

• Civil War Map - Federal Union and Southern States.png

  The division of Union and Confederate states during the American Civil War, which lasted from 1861 to 1865

• Advantages.jpg

  The United States had large advantages in men and resources at the start of the war, and the ratio grew steadily in favor of the United States. In the chart, "cauc men" means white men (Caucasian).

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  Anti-Lincoln Copperhead pamphlet from 1864

• Emancipation proclamation.jpg

  Lincoln met with his Cabinet for the first reading of the Emancipation Proclamation draft on July 22, 1862.

• Georgetown 1861.jpg

  Union soldiers on the Mason's Island, later renamed Theodore Roosevelt Island, on the Potomac River in 1861

• Union soldiers Marye's Heights during the Second Battle of Fredericksburg in May 1863

Related pages

• Union Army

References

• Current, Richard N. (1994). Lincoln's Loyalists: Union Soldiers from the Confederacy. Oxford, England: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-508465-9.
• Mackey, Robert R. (2004). The UnCivil War: Irregular Warfare in the Upper South. Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press. ISBN 0-8061-3624-3.