Most say the Civil War began April 12, 1861, with the first shots fired on Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbor. But many ...

The Civil War had begun. Immediately following the attack ... Finally, on August 6, 1861, fugitive slaves were declared to be "contraband of war" if their labor had been used to aid the ...

The deadliest and bloodiest battle in American history was the Civil War, a long and hard-fought battle that began on April 12, 1861, and ended almost exactly four years later on April 9 ...

American Civil War quickly showed both sides the costs of war. Each year proved a drain as the human toll became apparent.

Perhaps most compelling is the story of Thomas Bailey Aumack, a Bayshore native who was 17 years old when he enlisted to ...

Hear about the Union and Confederate forces' race to Washington DC in April 1861. In April 1861, as Union forces retreated north, having lost the first battle of the Civil War, attention turned to the ...

“From the founding of the Southern British colonies in 1606 to the outbreak of the Civil War in 1861. These beliefs continue to influence the contemporary South," said Robert Dipboye, professor ...

37 —Abraham Lincoln The Civil War was about slavery ... Abraham Lincoln, First Inaugural Address, Mar. 4, 1861. 41. Abraham Lincoln, Letter to Horace Greeley, Aug. 22, 1862.

“To speak as the slave would, to say that we are as happy for the Civil War as most Americans are for the Revolutionary War, is to rupture the narrative.” ...