Talk:American Civil War

Numbers for accident/disease deaths
Why does the info box have numbers for “accident/disease deaths” for the Union but not for the Confeserates? 2600:1700:975E:E000:2DF2:F8BB:E311:8E6D (talk) 16:14, 12 June 2024 (UTC)
 * at a guess, sourcing. Slatersteven (talk) 16:15, 12 June 2024 (UTC)

The federal holiday Juneteenth
The federal holiday Juneteenth says your end of the Civil War date of May 26,1865 is wrong. The Juneteenth holiday celebrates the end of the civil war in Texas and the freeing of the slaves in Texas. Between your clamed of the end of the war on May 26 and the end of the war in Texas June 19 uniformed confederates were active in Texas and blacks were still slaves in that area. The true end of the Civil war is June 23, 1865, when the last confederate general surrendered all his forces. After that only scattered troops were still resisting and not a threat. 2600:1015:A011:BFA0:C82:AAB8:8474:6668 (talk) 12:48, 20 June 2024 (UTC)
 * 1965? do you have a source for that? 12:50, 20 June 2024 (UTC)
 * Note the above comment was edited. Slatersteven (talk) 13:30, 20 June 2024 (UTC)
 * Appomattox marks the official end of the fighting, even though some skirmishes happened afterward. After Lee surrendered on April 9, 1865, Confederate Lt. Gen. Simon B. Buckner, acting for General Edmund Kirby Smith, surrendered the Confederate trans-Mississippi Department forces on May 26, 1865.Michaelbtfsplk (talk) 22:46, 8 July 2024 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 23 June 2024
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Citizens are missing one for forts that Lincoln wishes to retain and the other for McClellan's hesitation.rmeove thse snetances or add the citations.

– 64.189.18.51 (talk) 21:45, 23 June 2024 (UTC)


 * Red information icon with gradient background.svg Not done for now: What unsourced sentences do you want to be removed? It's also helpful if you could state under which section is the mentioned statement in. ABG (Talk/Report any mistakes here) 02:22, 24 June 2024 (UTC)

Comparison Chart
The chart Comparison of Union and Confederacy, 1860–1864 shows a decrease in the population of the Confederacy of six million and a comparable increase in the population of the Union. This calls for an explanation. As I understand it, there was no large-scale movement of people in the course of the war from the south to the north. The Confederacy did not experience anywhere near that number of deaths due to the war, nor can natural population increase or immigration account for the increase in the population of the Union. I suspect that something is wrong, or that the chart perhaps represents the population of areas controlled by the Union and the Confederacy, with the population of the Union including that of those parts of the Confederacy conquered by the Union as of 1864, and the population of the Confederacy excluding the population of the areas lost by the Confederacy. If that is the case, at the very least an explanation should be provided, but better yet, the figures should be revised so that the 1864 figures are for the same areas as in the 1860 figures. After all, the population advantage of the Union was not really increased by the population of the conquered areas of the Confederacy.Bill (talk) 22:18, 1 July 2024 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 5 July 2024
Excessive amount of text add more subheadings. 64.189.18.48 (talk) 07:42, 5 July 2024 (UTC)
 * Red question icon with gradient background.svg Not done: it's not clear what changes you want to be made. Please mention the specific changes in a "change X to Y" format and provide a reliable source if appropriate. Charliehdb (talk) 14:19, 5 July 2024 (UTC)