By Febrary 1, 1861, six more states -- Mississippi ... Finally, on April 18, 1865, the Civil War ended with the surrender of the Confederate army. 617,000 Americans had died in the war ...

Since then, our beautiful country has fought two other wars. We call them the First and Second World War. We have endured ...

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.

Farmer Left Dumbfounded As He Finds Over 700 American Civil War Era Coins in a Cornfield, Many Coins Deemed Rare Economic ...

War broke out in April 1861 with the attempt by the Federal government to resupply ... Finally, constitutionally and politically, Lincoln had to grapple with the evolving meaning of the Civil War.

The remains of several more Civil War veterans were sent to Maine ... Grebien said the burials recall important lessons about ...

Christopher George uncovered a late 19th-century Civil War presentation sword in the attic of his historic family home, ...

One of the great historical challenges of all armies throughout history has been to treat their dead with dignity. The Spanish ancestor of the 'boonie hat', the wide-brimmed hat worn by soldiers ...

“A house divided against itself, cannot stand.’ I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free.” 37 —Abraham Lincoln The Civil War was about slavery, although ...