Continue the deep dive into the American Civil War with Part 2, focusing on the crucial battles of 1861 that set the tone for years of bloody conflict. From Fort Sumter to Ball's Bluff, these early ...

War artifacts are typically weapons and uniforms, but occasionally something so strange shows up, that even historians are at ...

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 started in April 1861 and raged for over four years. From Fort Sumter to Appomattox and beyond, here are the most basic facts you need.

The Civil War was the bloodiest and most destructive conflict in American history. From the beginning of the war in April 1861 to the end in April 1865, over 620,000 people were killed, about ...

The Civil War was fought in 10,000 places, from Valverde, New Mexico, and Tullahoma, Tennessee, to St. Albans, Vermont, and Fernandina on the Florida coast. More than 3 million Americans fought in ...

The “Races at Philippi” and Virginia is split in two and more from what happened in the Civil War in June 1861. David Zax. June 2011. Get our newsletter! Get our newsletter!

Historian Jay Winik writes about the leadup to the outbreak of the Civil War in “1861: The Lost Peace.” The Associated Press' Andrew DeMillo writes that the political intrigue in Winik's book ...

The Civil War officially ended on Aug. 20, 1866, but Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrendered his army 16 months earlier on April 9, 1865. ... The fighting, which began in 1861, ...

(WHTM) — The Civil War was supposed to be over in ninety days. People on both the Union and Confederate sides thought that the war would be decided in just a single battle. In fact, many troop ...

In war, it is the stay and support both of the Government and people, and the astonishment of other nations, who judged of the effect of a civil war in this country by their own experience.