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The ___MASK64___ Army was the land force that fought for the ___MASK64___ during the American Civil War , 1861 to 1865 . It included the permanent regular army of the United States , which was augmented by massive numbers of temporary units consisting of volunteers as well as conscripts . The ___MASK64___ Army fought and eventually defeated the Confederate Army during the war . At least two and a half million men served in the ___MASK64___ Army ; almost all were volunteers . About 360 , 000 ___MASK64___ soldiers died from all causes ; 280 , 000 were wounded and 200 , 000 deserted . The United States ___MASK94___ ( USA ) is the largest branch of the United States ___MASK65___ and performs land - based ___MASK85___ operations . It is one of the seven uniformed services of the United States and is designated as the ___MASK94___ of the United States in the United States Constitution , Article 2 , Section 2 , Clause ___MASK31___ and United States Code , Title 10 , Subtitle B , Chapter 301 , Section 3001 . As the largest and senior branch of the U . S . ___MASK85___ , the modern U . S . ___MASK94___ has its roots in the Continental ___MASK94___ , which was formed ( 14 June 1775 ) to fight the American Revolutionary War ( 1775  1783 ) before the U . S . was established as a country . After the Revolutionary War , the Congress of the Confederation created the United States ___MASK94___ on 3 June 1784 , to replace the disbanded Continental ___MASK94___ . The United States ___MASK94___ considers itself descended from the Continental ___MASK94___ , and dates its institutional inception from the origin of that armed force in 1775 . A ___MASK89___ is a ___MASK63___ or riverboat powered by a steam engine that drives paddle wheels to propel the craft through the water . A ___MASK16___ is a watercraft designed for inland navigation on lakes , rivers , and artificial waterways . They are generally equipped and outfitted as work boats in one of the carrying trades , for freight or ___MASK59___ transport , including luxury units constructed for entertainment enterprises , such as lake or harbour tour boats . As larger ___MASK3___ ___MASK26___ , virtually all riverboats are especially designed and constructed , or alternatively , constructed with special - purpose features that optimizes them as riverine or lake service ___MASK26___ , for instance , dredgers , survey boats , fisheries management ___MASK26___ , fireboats and law enforcement patrol ___MASK26___ . The Confederate States , officially the Confederate States of America ( CSA or C . S .), commonly referred to as the Confederacy , was an unrecognized breakaway ___MASK53___ of 11 secessionist ___MASK23___ states existing from 1861 to 1865 . It was originally formed by ___MASK67___ ___MASK23___ states  South Carolina , Mississippi , Florida , Alabama , Georgia , Louisiana , and Texas  in the Lower South region of the United States whose regional ___MASK75___ was mostly dependent upon agriculture , particularly cotton , and a plantation ___MASK93___ that relied upon the labor of African - American slaves . ___MASK71___ ( derived from the Latin ___MASK12___ " secessio ") is the ___MASK24___ of a group from a larger entity , especially a political entity ( a country ), but also any organization , union or ___MASK85___ ___MASK84___ . Threats of secession can also be a strategy for achieving more limited goals . The ___MASK73___ of the Confederate States ( CSN ) was the naval ___MASK39___ of the Confederate States ___MASK65___ , established by an act of the Confederate ___MASK38___ on February 21 , 1861 . It was responsible for Confederate naval operations during the American Civil War , fighting against the U . S . ___MASK73___ . A ___MASK37___ is a ___MASK61___ that performs mechanical work using steam as its working fluid . USS Alpha ( 1864 ) was a ___MASK25___ wheel ___MASK89___ acquired by the Union Navy during the American Civil War . Alpha was used by the Union Navy as a tugboat -- with a spar torpedo as a weapon -- in support of the Union Navy blockade of Confederate waterways . The American Civil ___MASK62___ was a civil ___MASK62___ in the United States fought from 1861 to 1865 . The ___MASK64___ faced secessionists in eleven Southern states grouped together as the Confederate States of America . The ___MASK64___ won the ___MASK62___ , which remains the bloodiest in U . S . ___MASK43___ . The ___MASK64___ Navy was the United States Navy ( USN ) during the American Civil War , when it fought the Confederate States Navy ( CSN ). The term is sometimes used carelessly to include vessels of war used on the rivers of the interior while they were actually under the control of the United States Army , referred to in the same ___MASK4___ as the ___MASK64___ Army . A ___MASK63___ , often referred to as a steamer , is an ocean faring seaworthy vessel that is propelled by one or more steam engines that typically drive ( turn ) propellers or paddlewheels . The first steamships came into practical usage during the early 1800s ; however , there were exceptions that came before . Steamships usually use the prefix designations of " PS " for " paddle steamer " or " SS " for " screw steamer " ( using a propeller or screw ). As paddle steamers became less common , " SS " is assumed by many to stand for " steam ship ". Ships powered by internal combustion engines use a prefix such as " MV " for " motor vessel ", so it is not correct to use " SS " for most modern vessels . A civil ___MASK62___ , also known as an intrastate ___MASK62___ in polemology , is a ___MASK62___ between organized groups within the same ___MASK2___ or country , or , less commonly , between two countries created from a formerly united ___MASK2___ . The aim of one side ___MASK52___ be to take control of the country or a region , to achieve independence for a region or to change ___MASK13___ policies . The term is a calque of the Latin " bellum civile " which was used to refer to the various civil wars of the Roman Republic in the 1st century BC . The United States ___MASK73___ ( USN ) is the ___MASK69___ ___MASK54___ branch of the United States ___MASK65___ and one of the ___MASK67___ uniformed services of the United States . The U . S . ___MASK73___ is the largest , most capable navy in the world , with the highest combined ___MASK18___ fleet tonnage . The U . S . ___MASK73___ has the world ' s largest aircraft carrier fleet , with ten in ___MASK54___ , two in the reserve fleet , and three new carriers under construction . The ___MASK54___ has 323 , 792 personnel on active duty and 108 , 515 in the ___MASK73___ Reserve . It has 274 deployable combat vessels and more than 3 , 700 aircraft in active ___MASK54___ .