Civil War veteran
Blue or gray
A Civil War veteran is someone who served in a civil war, most often referring in American usage to soldiers who fought in the U.S.
Civil War (1861–1865), whether Union or Confederate.
The term became culturally significant in the decades after that conflict, when aging veterans held political influence and received pensions: My great-great-grandfather was a Civil War veteran.
- infantrymanGround-based combat soldier
- Union ArmyNorthern military in 1860s
- artillerymanSoldier operating heavy weaponry
- prisoner of warDetained military personnel
- battle scarsLasting marks from conflict
war wound · pension system · cavalryman · Confederate Army · musket ball · oral histories · sharpshooter · officer · medic · old soldier · Reconstruction Era · scout · Emancipation Proclamation · Gettysburg Address · secession · Fort Sumter · abolitionism · commemorative statues
Civil War veterandraft dodger
One who avoids compulsory enlistment
deserter · shirker · non-combatant · conscientious objector · draft evader
Civil War veterancivilian
Non-military person
non-combatant · war widow · war profiteer · sutler · freedman
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