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___MASK40___ ___MASK85___ , also known ___MASK51___ an intrastate war in polemology , is a war between organized groups ___MASK41___ the same state or country , or , less commonly , between two countries created from a formerly united state . The aim of one side may be to take control of the country or a region , to achieve independence for a region or to change government 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 . Andrew Huebner ___MASK77___ an American author who lives in ___MASK86___ City . He ___MASK77___ the author of American by Blood and ___MASK94___ . He was also the Production Manager of the popular children ' s cartoon Avatar , the Last Air Bender . American by ___MASK59___ ___MASK77___ a 2001 historical ___MASK2___ novel by Andrew Huebner . It ___MASK77___ his ___MASK28___ novel and tells the story of three American Civil War scouts . The ___MASK83___ of ___MASK86___ , ___MASK58___ called ___MASK86___ ___MASK83___ or simply ___MASK86___ , is the most populous city in the United States . With an estimated 2015 population of 8 , 550 , ___MASK34___ distributed over a land area of just , ___MASK86___ ___MASK83___ is also the most densely populated major city in the United States . Located at the southern tip of the state of ___MASK86___ , the city is the center of the ___MASK86___ metropolitan area , one of the most populous urban agglomerations in the world . A global power city , ___MASK86___ ___MASK83___ exerts a significant impact upon commerce , finance , media , art , fashion , research , technology , education , and entertainment , its fast pace defining the term " ___MASK86___ minute ". Home to the headquarters of the United Nations , ___MASK86___ is an important center for international diplomacy and has been described as the cultural and financial capital of the world . Secession ( derived from the ___MASK26___ term " secessio ") ___MASK77___ the withdrawal of a group from a larger entity , especially a political entity ( a country ), but also any organization , union ___MASK72___ military alliance . Threats of secession can also be a strategy for achieving more limited goals . The Confederate States , officially the Confederate States of ___MASK16___ ( CSA or ___MASK4___ . S .), commonly referred to as the Confederacy , was an unrecognized breakaway country of 11 secessionist slave states existing from 1861 to 1865 . It was ___MASK44___ formed by seven slave states  South Carolina , Mississippi , Florida , Alabama , Georgia , Louisiana , and Texas  in the Lower South region of the United States whose regional economy was mostly dependent upon agriculture , particularly cotton , and a plantation system that relied upon the labor of African - American slaves . The American ___MASK85___ was a ___MASK85___ in the ___MASK23___ States fought from ___MASK12___ to 1865 . The Union faced secessionists in eleven Southern states grouped together as the Confederate States of ___MASK16___ . The Union won the war , which remains the bloodiest in U . S . history . ___MASK94___ is a 2003 novel by Andrew Huebner . It tells the story of two brothers , Smith and Sam . Smith leads a tank company into battle in Iraq during the Gulf War , while Sam protests the war and struggles with alcohol and narcotic abuse .