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r/CIVILWAR

This community is private, banned or no longer exists on Reddit. The numbers below are what we captured while it was public.

101.1K members. The best post we have captured here reached 6.7K upvotes, which works out to 66 per 1,000 members.

66peak upvotes per 1,000 members
101.1Kmembers
6.7Kbest post
650most comments
403posts we track

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What actually lands here

The mix of post types among everything we have captured. Posting a link where almost nothing but images lands is wasted effort, and this is the fastest way to see it.

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Image 40% Gallery 20% Link 14% Text 10% Question 9% Video 7%

What the ceiling looks like

The biggest posts we have captured here. Links go to the original on Reddit.

Out of over 750,000 soldiers that fought for South, these were last 3 surviving Confederate Civil War veterans, 1951. The last Union veteran would li…

↑ 6.7K 💬 235 image 2025

A Civil War Veteran with his grandchildren.

↑ 6.4K 💬 54 image 2025

Let’s raise a toast to the unknown soldiers of the Civil War. 🥂

↑ 5.8K 💬 54 image 2024

Johnny Clem, the “Drummer Boy of Chickamauga” who shot and killed a Confederate officer and rose through the ranks to Major General at the time of hi…

↑ 4.1K 💬 67 image 2025

"am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded…

↑ 4.1K 💬 105 image 2025

Grant summing up the confederacy perfectly

↑ 4K 💬 147 image 2025

The last photo taken of Ulysses Grant, who died four days later. 1885.

↑ 3.8K 💬 121 image 2026

Do you have a favorite quote from a Civil War general?

↑ 3.7K 💬 107 image 2024

Forgot to wish one of America’s greatest presidents a happy birthday

↑ 2.9K 💬 141 image 2025

Union soldiers posing with a cannon, c. 1862. Color by Sanna Dullaway

↑ 2.8K 💬 68 image 2025

Communities its size

Within four times the member count either way, so the comparison is fair. Sorted by upside.

r/CIVILWAR, in numbers

Answered from the posts ViralHunt holds from this community, not from Reddit's own about page.

How many members does r/CIVILWAR have?
r/CIVILWAR has about 101.1K members. ViralHunt has tracked 403 of its posts; the biggest reached 6.7K upvotes, which is 66 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/CIVILWAR?
"Out of over 750,000 soldiers that fought for South, these were last 3 surviving Confederate Civil War veterans, 1951. The last Union veteran" reached 6.7K upvotes and 235 comments in 2025, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/CIVILWAR.
What subreddits are similar to r/CIVILWAR?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/Trumpvirus, r/alaska, r/Louisiana, r/popculture, r/Antimoneymemes, r/BlueskySkeets.
What kind of posts do best on r/CIVILWAR?
Of the posts we hold, 40% are image posts and 20% are gallery posts.
When is the best time to post on r/CIVILWAR?
Across 403 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Thursday at 23:00 UTC (2.4K avg upvotes), Wednesday at 11:00 UTC (1.5K avg upvotes), Tuesday at 20:00 UTC (1.5K avg upvotes). The busiest day is Monday. For Reddit as a whole, see the best time to post on Reddit page.
How many upvotes does a post need to reach the top of r/CIVILWAR?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/CIVILWAR has 2.1K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 301 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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Every figure here is what ViralHunt has captured from r/CIVILWAR, not everything the community has ever posted. We deliberately do not publish an average score: our sample is weighted toward a community's best posts, so an average would be flattering and wrong. Peak per 1,000 members is computed the same way for every community listed. See how we measure.