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 ...

More than two decades have passed since historian Jay Winik wrote about the end of the Civil War with a book with “April 1865: The Month That Saved America.” His latest book covers the period of time ...

Western Union completed the transcontinental telegraph, bridging communications between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans for the very first time — just as the Civil War tore apart north and south — on ...

The Civil War (1861 to 1865) was the bloodiest war that the United States has ever fought. Fought between the Union in the North and the Confederacy in the South, the war simply tore the United States ...

Decade of Disunion: How Massachusetts and South Carolina Led the Way to Civil War, 1849-1861, by Robert W. Merry. Simon & Schuster, 528 pages. With Decade of Disunion: How Massachusetts and South ...

Sarah Emma Edmonds disguised herself as a man to join the 2nd Michigan Infantry's Company F, known as the Flint Union Greys.

Fred Dent Grant, son of President Ulysses S. Grant, left George Armstrong Custer’s 7th Cavalry just before Sioux, Cheyenne and Arapaho Indians nearly annihilated the regiment at the Battle of the ...