The Civil War had begun. Immediately following the attack, four more states -- Virginia, Arkansas, North Carolina, and Tennessee -- severed their ties with the Union. To retain the loyalty of the ...

Union and Confederate … Historian Craig Symonds talked about the similarities and differences in leadership between Civil War Admiral David Farr… Author Elizabeth Varon discussed Confederate ...

Pillow, Tennessee on April 12, 1864 100,000+ — Number of Civil War Union corpses found in the South through a federal reinterment program from 1866-1869 303,356 — Number of Union soldiers who ...

This is the metadata section. Skip to content viewer section. Thaddeus S. C. Lowe, “Report Submitted to Secretary of War Stanton, May 26, 1863,” in The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the ...

The Rev. Canon Samuel P. Lundy, a member of the Walter H. French Camp No. 17 Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War, will be ...

Nervous before combat, the infantry got chatty and revealed deep knowledge of Civil War history. “Of course the war was about slavery,” Confederate Sergeant Matthew Connor said. “Read any st ...

The episode will focus on the events of Jan. 25, 1865, when 22 Civil War soldiers were ambushed by outlaws and killed, while ...

A Nigerian lecturer based in the United States, Prof Emeka Aniagolu, on Tuesday, described the 2009 scrapping of history from ...

A look at the people and events that shaped the Civil War and Reconstruction. Covering American History C-SPAN style: with event coverage, eyewitness accounts, and discussions with authors ...

Learn about what's happening across the most pressing civil liberties issues of our time, and what you can do. Since our nation’s founding, discriminatory policies and laws have created an unequal ...

A recent exhibition shows how soldiers sent in votes during the Civil War and World War II ... Still, she bravely served in the Union Army, becoming one of hundreds of women who fought in the ...