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 ...

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

The "Races at Philippi" and Virginia is split in two and more from what happened in the Civil War in June 1861. ... 30 men were wounded, making it arguably the first major land action of the war.

1861: The Lost Peace. By Jay Winik. Grand Central Publishing. 304 pages. $35. More than two decades have passed since historian Jay Winik wrote about the end of the Civil War with a book with ...

Private Hough was serving as an artillerist, posted at Ft. Sumter, out in Charleston Harbor, when the Civil War began on the morning of April 12, 1861. ... 1861, when Hough died.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

In “1861: The Lost Peace,” Winik covers the lead-up to the first shots being fired at Fort Sumter. The political intrigue leading up to 1861 rivals the battlefield action readers come to ...