The Lost Peace' by Jay Winik. The most serious attempt to evade America's Civil War was probably doomed to fail, said Adam ...

Lincoln, worried that conciliatory overtures toward the South would appear weak, employed a preinaugural strategy of ‘masterly inactivity.’ ...

On this day in 1861, delegates from six states - South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia and Louisiana - met in Montgomery, Alabama, to establish a new unified government, which ...

Thank you very much, Dean Miles, for that introduction. Class of 2025, families, and friends, it is a tremendous honor for me ...

THE STATE GOES OVER TO THE CONFEDERATES.The following important documents are published in ... 1861, by Alexander H. Stevens, the duly authorized Commissioner to act in the matter for the ...

Also, twenty-one hundred dark blue felt jackets, all wool, indigo blue, on or before May 12, 1861, of which said felt a sample is hereunto annexed, marked "Brooks Bros., sample No. 8;" also ...

John Christopher Schwab, Prices in the Confederate States, 1861-65, Political Science Quarterly, Vol. 14, No. 2 (Jun., 1899), pp. 281-304 ...

The Revenue Act of 1862 was a U.S. federal law to fund the war against the Southern states. The Revenue Act of 1862 revised and expanded the previous Revenue Act of 1861 to raise additional ...