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

By Febrary 1, 1861, six more states -- Mississippi ... Federal troops returned the fire. The Civil War had begun. Immediately following the attack, four more states -- Virginia, Arkansas, North ...

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 ...

Beginning with a searing indictment of slavery, this first episode dramatically evokes the causes of the war, from the Cotton Kingdom of the South to the northern abolitionists who opposed it.

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 ...

Members of the Grays and Blues pose in front of the monument Canada has unveiled its first monument to the ... The pressures of the 1861-65 Civil War, and the threat of an American invasion ...

War broke out in April 1861 with the attempt by the Federal government to ... Above all, there is his evolution on civil rights. He began the Civil War with thoughts only of restoring the Union, but ...

Sworn into service on April 20, 1861, Company C ... is mainly remembered by Civil War nerds? Why do we remember Nat Turner more than Sergeant William Carney, the first black recipient of the ...

“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.” ...

37 —Abraham Lincoln The Civil War was about slavery ... For his part, Lincoln tried at first to preserve the Union without war by minimizing the two sides’ differences and denied that he ...