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Montage.jpg Clockwise from top left: Battle of Stones River;
Confederate prisoners of war; Battle of Fort Hindman. DateApril
12, 1861 – May 10, 1865 (by declaration)[1] (4 years, 3
weeks and 6 days) (last shot fired June 22, 1865)
LocationSouthern United States, Northeastern United States,
Western United States, Atlantic Ocean ResultUnion victory
 United States Confederate States Commanders and leaders Abraham
Lincoln  Edwin M. Stanton Ulysses S. Grant William T. Sherman
David Farragut David D. Porter  and others Jefferson Davis
Judah P. Benjamin Robert E. Lee Joseph E. Johnston Raphael
Semmes Josiah Tattnall  and others Casualties and losses 110,000
Army killed in action/dead of wounds [2] 25,000 Army dead in
Confederate prisons [3] 2,260 Navy/Marines killed [4]  ~ 365,000
total dead[5] 275,200 wounded 72,524 killed in action[5] ~
260,000 total dead 137,000+ wounded Jump to: navigation, s