The American Civil War (1861–1865) remains one of the most defining chapters in the nation’s past, forging our modern ...

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 ...

How much do you know about the Civil War? Our history quiz covers some of the basic Civil War questions that we feel are ...

We have an income tax as opposed to a tariff thanks to a gesture of good will from Yankees to the Old South in 1913 ...

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.

While the American Civil War has been relegated to some chapter in American history, that it ended some 159 years ago somehow places the conflict out of contemporary context. Yet, while the war raged, ...

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.

and documents held by DeGolyer Library that illustrate both the Union and Confederate sides of the U.S. Civil War, 1861-1865. Important materials related to the Civil War are found in several ...

The Civil War coincided with an era in naval technology that was revolutionizing sea warfare.” Could the Confederate government build a fleet of “ironclad blockade breakers” in the shipyards of ...