Princeton's WordNet(5.00 / 1 vote)Rate this definition: 1  fauna, zoology(noun) all the animal life in a particular region or period. the fauna of China; the zoology of the Pliocene epoch. 2  zoology, zoological science(noun) the branch of biology that studies animals.
The American Civil War, widely known in the United States as simply the Civil War as well as other sectional names, was a civil war fought from 1861 to 1865 to determine the survival of the Union or independence for the Confederacy.
The South was the Confederate States of America. The president of the Confederate States of America was Jefferson Davis. The president of the United States of America was Abraham Lincoln. They were considered the Presidents of the Civil War. On April 12, 1861, America was split up into two parts. The north &amp; the south. The North was the United States of America.