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

• War correspondenceBroader topic: Its large press corps and telegraph reporting expanded the scale of war coverage.

• John Bell HoodNarrower topic: Hood’s command decisions unfolded in the war’s Western Theater during its final years.

• John Wilkes BoothNarrower topic: The Confederacy’s defeat shaped Booth’s turn from kidnapping Lincoln to killing him.

• 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.

• Missing in actionBroader topic: Its large numbers of unaccounted-for soldiers helped spur formal efforts to identify and recover the dead.

• P. G. T. BeauregardNarrower topic: Beauregard’s military career was shaped by this conflict and its changing theaters.

• 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.

• Clara BartonBroader topic: Barton gained national prominence by bringing supplies and care to Union troops during the war.

• 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.

• Antebellum SouthNarrower topic: Secession over slavery and its political future turned sectional conflict into war.

• Battle of Hampton RoadsNarrower topic: The opposing fleets met while contesting control of a strategic Civil War harbor.

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

• Battle of the WildernessNarrower topic: The battle was part of the war’s 1864 eastern theater.

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

• Dorothea DixNarrower topic: The conflict opened a new arena for Dix’s organizing and medical relief work.

• Drew Gilpin FaustNarrower topic: The war and its aftermath anchor much of Faust’s historical writing.

• 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.

• Henry Ward BeecherNarrower topic: The war transformed the antislavery cause Beecher had promoted into a national political struggle.

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

• Military campaignBroader topic: Its campaigns illustrate how industrial capacity and political aims affected military operations.

• 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.

• Assassination of Abraham LincolnNarrower topic: The conflict gave Booth his political cause and defined the crisis surrounding the assassination.

• Battle Hymn of the RepublicNarrower topic: The hymn emerged during the war and voiced a Union interpretation of its cause.

• Battle of Fort SumterNarrower topic: The attack prompted the conflict’s first mobilization and opened the war.

• 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.

• Nelson A. MilesNarrower topic: Miles’s early service in this war preceded his decades of western campaigning.

• Theodore Dwight WeldNarrower topic: The abolitionist movement Weld helped build formed part of the long struggle that preceded emancipation during the war.

• Wild Bill HickokNarrower topic: Hickok’s wartime service and scouting began amid this conflict.

• Allan NevinsNarrower topic: Nevins’s multi-volume history made the conflict a central subject of his scholarship.

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

• Battle of Appomattox Court HouseNarrower topic: Appomattox became a defining moment in the Confederacy’s military collapse.

• David FarragutNarrower topic: Farragut’s best-known commands came during the Union’s naval campaigns in this war.

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

• History of North AmericaBroader topic: Its outcome ended legal slavery in the United States and strengthened federal authority.

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