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r/CIVILWAR

98.3K members. The best post we have captured here reached 6.7K upvotes, which works out to 68 per 1,000 members.

68peak upvotes per 1,000 members
98.3Kmembers
6.7Kbest post
650most comments
100posts 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 74% Gallery 23% Video 2% Link 1%

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…

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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…

↑ 4.2K 💬 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

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

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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

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

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