When they emerge from their books and battlefields, the scholars and historians specializing in the original Civil War, from 1861-65, rarely believe that sort of starkly regional conflict would ...

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 ...

A new collection of primary source documents, "The 1863 Stibbs Family Civil War Era Letters," is the third set of letters ...

May 2, 1861. Credit... The New York Times Archives. See the article in its original context from May 2, ... A war, therefore, to be short, must be sudden and must be offensive.

The Disputed Name of the War. Share full article. June 17, 1900. Credit... The New York Times Archives. See the article in its original context from June 17, 1900, Page 7 Buy Reprints.

Frozen in Place: December 1861 ... Secretary of War Simon Cameron had recently advocated freeing and arming slaves, but Lincoln dismissed the proposal—for now.

The Dogs of War is a meditation on the out-break of the Civil War byone of the most notable scholars of the conflict, Emory Thomas, Regents Professor of History Emeritus at the University of Georgia, ...

But “1861” is one of the few Civil War histories where Lincoln isn’t the most compelling figure. That title goes to a cast of characters, ...

July 5 has long been a historic day in Carthage, as residents remember an early battle of the Civil War that happened there ...

We call the war of 1861 the Civil War. But is that right? A civil war is a struggle between two or more entities trying to take over the central government. Confederate President Jefferson Davis ...

Leesburg residents voted 400-22 to ratify Virginia’s Ordinance of Secession. A mere five miles northwest, however, the town ...

The Revenue Act of 1862 was a U.S. federal law to fund the war against the Southern states. The Revenue Act of 1862 revised and expanded the previous Revenue Act of 1861 to raise additional ...