Both groups retreated before the Union troops from California would return a month later and take Tucson without incident. The event at Picacho Pass was “the westernmost battle of the Civil War ...

Library of Congress Though the confederates had bombarded Fort Sumter two months earlier, signaling the start of the Civil War, there had ... On June 11, 1861, delegates from 32 counties in ...

Before Lincoln turned the idea of “the Union” into a cause worth dying for, he tried other means of ending slavery in America ...

Northern Illinois University Libraries Five months into the Civil War—on September 9—Richmond, Virginia’s Daily Dispatch editorialized that the time for debate had passed. “Words are now ...

Editor's note: On this day April 12, 1861, the Confederate Army opened fire at Fort Sumter in Charleston Bay, launching the American Civil War. The War raged for four years and caused the deaths ...