Since then, our beautiful country has fought two other wars. We call them the First and Second World War. We have endured ...

By Febrary 1, 1861, six more states -- Mississippi ... Finally, on April 18, 1865, the Civil War ended with the surrender of the Confederate army. 617,000 Americans had died in the war ...

Farmer Left Dumbfounded As He Finds Over 700 American Civil War Era Coins in a Cornfield, Many Coins Deemed Rare Economic ...

The American Civil War (1861–1865) remains one of the most defining chapters in the nation’s past, forging our modern identity through tumultuous battles and profound social change.

During the Civil War, Confederates targeted free Black people in the North, kidnapping them to sell into slavery. After the ...

War broke out in April 1861 with the attempt by the Federal government to resupply ... Finally, constitutionally and politically, Lincoln had to grapple with the evolving meaning of the Civil War.

Christopher George uncovered a late 19th-century Civil War presentation sword in the attic of his historic family home, ...

One can hardly imagine what the night of Feb. 17, 1865, must have been like in Charleston. Hours before surrendering to Union ...