The Northern States and the Southern States!
I don't see civilians fighting a civil war against police forces. For the most part, police officers are good people.
No, the bombardment of Fort Sumter by Confederate forces on April 12, 1861, started the fighting of the American Civil War. Gettysburg occurred two years later, July 1,2, and 3, 1863.
As might be expected, the Union had a number of officers with the rank of general in the US Civil War. At the end of the war, however, US Grant was in charge of the Union's fighting forces.
Gadaffi's supporters (the government) and the rebels.
It wasn't plain and simple. It was not two groups of one country fighting, it was an invasion of a nation by another.
American forces were fighting German forces
Alabama and Florida
union(north), confederates(south)
A civil war is where the opposing sides belong to the same country or region, as opposed to fighting a foreign country. A war fought between people from the same country: e.g the English civil war
It wasn't plain and simple. It was not two groups of one country fighting, it was an invasion of a nation by another.
The senate could not do much to avoid the 12 civil wars in the Late Roman Republic. It could not stop strong military commanders who had the loyalty of their troops from fighting each other. Moreover, in the first few of these wars, it sided with one of the fighting factions, that of the conservative commander. In one of them, the senate was actually one of the fighting forces. This was Caesar's civil war against the forces of the senate. The Liberators' Civil War was fought between supporters of the senate and supporters of the assassinated Julius Caesar.
The Civil War was a between the Union (North) and the Confederacy (South) in the United States. No two countries were fighting against each other. That's why it was called a civil war because it was a war between two sides in one country.