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 ...

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.

The three days of conflict at Gettysburg resulted in 51,000 casualties, making it the bloodiest battle of the Civil War. Courtesy: Library of Congress From 1861 to 1865, the Civil War ravaged America.

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

Long before the current political divide over climate change, and even before the U.S. Civil War (1861-1865), an American scientist named Eunice Foote documented the underlying cause of today’s ...

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, ...

When war finally broke out in April 1861, pro-war Democrats and Republicans did unite to form the Union party in Cleveland to support Lincoln's war effort. The next 4 years severely tested this ...

“A house divided against itself, cannot stand.’ I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free.” 37 —Abraham Lincoln The Civil War was about slavery, although ...