Second American Civil War

The first American Civil War spanned from 1861 to 1865, after which the Union was forcibly restored. Rhetorical or hyperbolic references to a Second American Civil War have been made on a number of occasions throughout the history of the United States.

As the phrase civil war can refer to any war to separate one political body from another, a number of international scholars name the 1861–1865 war as the Second American Civil War, referring to the American War for Independence as the First American Civil War, separating the colonial states from the British Empire, particularly since a significant number of the North American colonists were Loyalists, who fought on the British side, and in some localities, there was a real civil war among neighbors.

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