The American Civil War ends in 1865, followed by a dozen years of Reconstruction, in which the Federal government attempts to solve the political, social, and economic problems arising from the readmission to the Union of the eleven Confederate states that had seceded at or before the outbreak of war.

The chronology featured in this thread is drawn primarily from Karl Marx on America & the Civil War, Saul K. Padover, editor (McGraw Hill, New York, 1972).

(At the opening of hostilities, Marx had been London correspondent for the New York Daily Tribune for nearly a decade.

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