Explore the American Civil War's history, causes like slavery and states' rights, key events including Gettysburg and ...

Historian Jay Winik writes about the leadup to the outbreak of the Civil War in “1861: The Lost Peace.” The' Andrew DeMillo ...

What led the United States into civil war in 1861? In this premiere episode of Kings and Generals’ American Civil War series, ...

The US Civil War, fought from 1861 to 1865, was a defining moment in ... To identify the most important events of the American Civil War, 24/7 Wall St. reviewed various military and historical ...

When they emerge from their books and battlefields, the scholars and historians specializing in the original Civil War, from 1861-65 ... Those events beg the question of what is still to come ...

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 ...

Most folks will tell you the Civil War began April 12, 1861, with the first shots fired on Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbor. Many historians, however, say the war actually began 164 years ago this ...

Whitman moves to Washington to care for Civil War soldiers but grows disillusioned. The poet moves to Washington to care for sick and injured Civil War soldiers but grows disillusioned with the ...

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 ...

On April 12, 1861, the Civil War began as Confederate forces fired on Ft. Sumter in South Carolina. In 1945 Franklin D. Roosevelt, the nation’s 32nd president, died of a cerebral hemorrhage in ...

State historian Robert Weible is facilitating Civil War remembrance events in New York ... on Fort Sumter in South Carolina on April 12, 1861. The state objected so strongly to Lincoln's election ...

U.S. Army assistant surgeon Bernard John Dowling "J.D." Irwin rescued a kidnapped boy and 60 soldiers encircled by legendary Apache warrior Cochise on this day in history, Feb. 13, 1861.