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During the American Civil War, the Union was a name used to refer to the United States, the twenty-three Northern states that were not part of the seceding Confederacy.

Overview

Because the term had been used prior to the war to refer to the entire United States (a "union of states"), using it to apply to the non-secessionist side carried a connotation of legitimacy as the continuation of the pre-existing political entity. Also, in the public dialogue of the United States, new states are "admitted to the Union," and the President's annual address to Congress and to the people is referred to as the "State of the Union" Address.

During the American Civil War, those loyal to the Federal Government and opposed to secession living in the border states and Confederate states were termed Unionists. Confederate soldiers sometimes styled them "Homemade Yankees." Nearly 120,000 Southern Unionists served in the Union Army during the Civil War, and every of the Confederacy occupied by the Union. Since the Civil War, the term has been a widely used synonym for the Northern side of the conflict, and has increasingly lost the more subtle historical connotations. It is usually used in contexts where "United States" might be confusing, "Federal" obscure, or "Yankee" dated or derogatory.

Union states

The Union states were: *denotes a border state

Kansas, West Virginia, and Nevada joined the Union after the outbreak of the war.

See also

  • Guerrilla Warfare: American Civil War

References

  • Current, Richard N. Lincoln's Loyalists: Union Soldiers from the Confederacy. Oxford University Press, rpr. 1994. ISBN 0-19-508465-9.
  • Mackey, Robert R. The UnCivil War: Irregular Warfare in the Upper South, 1861-1865. University of Oklahoma Press, 2004. ISBN 0-8061-3624-3.

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