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Bellum is the Classical Latin word for "war". The words antebellum and postbellum, which mean before war and after war respectively, often refer specifically to periods before and after the American Civil War. Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Wiktionary is a Wikimedia Foundation project intended to be a free wiki dictionary (hence: Wiktionary) (including thesaurus and lexicon) in every language. ... Latin is an ancient Indo-European language originally spoken in Latium, the region immediately surrounding Rome. ... The United States detonated an atomic bomb over Nagasaki on August 9, 1945. ... Antebellum is a Latin word meaning before the war (ante means before and bellum war). ... For other uses, see Reconstruction (disambiguation). ... Combatants United States of America (Union) Confederate States of America (Confederacy) Commanders Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses S. Grant Jefferson Davis, Robert Edward Lee Strength 2,200,000 1,064,000 Casualties 110,000 killed in action, 360,000 total dead, 275,200 wounded 93,000 killed in action, 258,000 total...