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

Alexander Gardner, Gardner’s Photographic Sketchbook of the American Civil War 1861-1865 (New York: Delano Greenridge Editions, 2001) First published by Philip and Solomons, Washington DC ...

The American Civil War, which began in 1861, was a four-year struggle between the Union (North) and the Confederacy (South). Initially driven by the Union's intention to restore national unity and ...

Courtesy: Library of Congress From 1861 to 1865, the Civil War ravaged ... deaths to Union deaths 9:1 — Ratio of African American Civil War troops who died of disease to those that died on ...

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 ...

A Civil War map in the National Archives in College Park, Maryland reads, “S. E. Missouri, Country Around Ironton” on its ...

The Montgomery Conference yesterday passed an act recognizing war with the United ... for the first time since the civil discord in the United States, an American vessel hoisted the flag of ...

After the American Civil War of 1861–1865, the growth of cities and the railroads led to greater contact between blacks and whites in the American South. Southerners felt the need to introduce a ...

On April 12th 1861, these two Americas duly went to ... itself “thrilled by the death of our oppressor." The American Civil War left a bitter legacy. In the south, burned and devastated, the ...