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

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 ...

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 three days of conflict at Gettysburg resulted in 51,000 casualties, making it the bloodiest battle of the Civil War. Courtesy: Library of Congress From 1861 to 1865, the Civil War ravaged America.

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

Foreigners who, almost up to the present moment, have regarded the civil war now raging in the United ... for the first nine mouths of 1859, 1860 and 1861: Such an exhibit fully proves that ...

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

Despite nearly 150 years separating the start of the Civil War and this young history buff’s birth, the fascination and passion runs deep.

“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.” ...