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The 173 pages that link to American Civil War, each with the reason it gives.

• American regionalismRelated: Postwar fiction increasingly registered the transformed communities and regional divisions left by the conflict.

• Cotton KingdomRelated: The war destroyed the political and labor system that had sustained the Cotton Kingdom.

• DysenteryRelated: Dysentery was a major source of disease and death among soldiers in crowded military camps.

• Gatling gunRelated: The gun was invented during the conflict, though it saw limited wartime use.

• Harper's WeeklyRelated: The magazine’s wartime reporting and images became a major record of the conflict.

• The Good, the Bad and the UglyRelated: The film places its fictional gold hunt amid the war’s battles and devastation.

• Lyman BeecherRelated: Beecher died as the war began, after decades of religious debate over slavery and reform.

• Matthew Fontaine MauryRelated: Maury’s Confederate service placed his career within the war’s political and moral conflict.

• Roger B. TaneyRelated: The Dred Scott decision sharpened sectional conflict before the war, while Taney challenged Lincoln’s wartime powers.

• VirginiaRelated: Virginia seceded and became the Confederacy’s principal eastern theater.

• Edwin BoothRelated: The war and Lincoln assassination profoundly affected Booth’s family and public standing.

• Five-card studRelated: Stud poker variants developed in the United States during the nineteenth century, a period shaped by the war.

• George WestinghouseRelated: Westinghouse served in the Union Army and Navy before returning to civilian engineering.

• Henry AdamsRelated: Adams served as his father’s private secretary during the war years.

• Henry WellsRelated: War disrupted and reshaped the routes and business environment of American express companies.

• Louisa May AlcottRelated: Alcott served briefly as a nurse and wrote about wartime hospital conditions.

• Lysander SpoonerRelated: Spooner’s postwar writings criticized the Union’s conduct and questioned the war’s political justification.

• Pax BritannicaRelated: Britain remained officially neutral despite tensions over trade, blockade-running, and possible intervention.

• William Le Baron JenneyRelated: Jenney served as an engineer in the Union Army, gaining experience before his architectural career.

• Battle of PueblaRelated: The battle occurred while the United States was divided, limiting its ability to oppose French expansion in Mexico.

• Deep SouthRelated: The war destroyed slavery and the political order built around it.

• Ferdinand von ZeppelinRelated: Zeppelin observed Union balloon operations during a visit to the United States in 1863.

• Francis LieberRelated: The Union sought consistent rules for its armies as the war expanded.

• Jay CookeRelated: The Union’s need to pay for this war created the financing challenge Cooke helped address.

• Stephen CraneRelated: Its battles and remembered meanings frame Crane’s best-known novel, though he was born after the war.

• Adah Isaacs MenkenRelated: The conflict reshaped the country while Menken’s theatrical career was gaining prominence.

• Daniel B. WessonRelated: Wartime demand increased the market for portable firearms made by Smith & Wesson.

• Frédéric Auguste BartholdiRelated: The statue project was conceived in the aftermath of the Union victory and emancipation.

• Henry Hobson RichardsonRelated: The war disrupted Richardson’s early career and delayed his move into architectural practice.

• John ShermanRelated: The war shaped Sherman’s congressional work on finance and the Union’s postwar settlement.

• American political historyRelated: The war settled secession by force and transformed federal authority and the status of slavery.

• George DeweyRelated: Dewey gained combat experience as a Union naval officer during the war.

• Lewis CassRelated: Cass’s resignation as secretary of state came amid the secession crisis that preceded the war.

• Margaret WalkerRelated: The war and its aftermath structure the historical arc of Jubilee.

• Phoebe PalmerRelated: Palmer and her husband conducted wartime relief work for Union soldiers and supported the United States Christian Commission.

• Richard Jordan GatlingRelated: Gatling patented his gun during the war, though it saw limited wartime use.

• The Education of Henry AdamsRelated: The war marks a rupture in the political world Adams inherited and sought to interpret.

• Doc HollidayRelated: Holliday came of age in the postwar South, amid the upheavals of Reconstruction.

• Greene Vardiman BlackRelated: Black served as a Union soldier before beginning his dental career after the war.

• Human wave attackRelated: Rifled muskets and field fortifications demonstrated the rising danger of advancing in dense formations.

• Limbers and caissonsRelated: Its armies used extensive horse-drawn artillery trains, including limbers and caissons.

• Philip Danforth ArmourRelated: Wartime demand for preserved meat helped Armour’s early packing business grow.

• Sally MannRelated: Its battle sites give Mann’s Southern landscapes a history of conflict and loss.

• Statue of FreedomRelated: The statue was assembled atop the Capitol during the war, in 1863.

• United States of AmericaRelated: The Union victory preserved the country and ended slavery.

• Upland SouthRelated: Divided loyalties and Unionist communities made parts of the uplands politically distinct during the war.

• William Gilmore SimmsRelated: The war devastated Simms's South Carolina home and affected his later life and writing.