There was no New York Yankees in the civil war. They were invented in the early 1900's.
Yankees were the northern part of America to fight in the civil war the "blue guys"
In the civil war, the North was called the Union.
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The Yankees - or "Bluebelly".
The Confederates (South)
Yankees were supposedly against slavery, but the main reason this was said was to gain European sympathies during the Civil War. The war was started because the Union (yankees) wanted to keep the southern states from becoming the Confederate States of America.
Approximately 360,000 Union soldiers died during the American Civil War.