american_civil_war | commander | abraham_lincoln <tsp> alfred_moore_scales | country | united_states <tsp> united_states | ethnicgroup | native_americans_in_the_united_states <tsp> alfred_moore_scales | battles | battle_of_fredericksburg <tsp> battle_of_fredericksburg | ispartofmilitaryconflict | american_civil_war <sep> the american civil war (april 12, 1861 – may 26, 1865; also known by other names) was a civil war in the united states it was fought between the union ('the north') and the confederacy ('the south'), the latter formed by states that had seceded the central cause of the war was the dispute over whether slavery would be permitted to expand into the western territories, leading to more slave states, or be prevented from doing so, which was widely believed would place slavery on a course of ultimate extinction decades of political controversy over slavery were brought to a head by the victory in the 1860 us presidential election of abraham lincoln, who opposed slavery's expansion into the western territories 
native americans are one of the ethnic groups in the united states. which is where alfred moore scales was from. alfred moore scales fought in the battle of fredericksburg. which was part of the american civil war military conflict. a commander in the american civil war was abraham lincoln.abraham lincoln united states in the united states of american civil war