The violence broke out after the losing side in a presidential election refused to accept their defeat. In other words, the South and its supporters engaged in large-scale psychological manipulation ...

Civil War reenactors stepped back 160 years to the Battle of Gettysburg Sunday at the Northbrook Sports Club in Hainesville. The American Civil War Encampment and Battle included costumed Union and ...

An illustration of a deserter being executed by a firing squad at the Federal Camp in Alexandria during the American civil war. Kean Collection/Getty Images Americans have an appetite for reenacting ...

"While in the short term--militarily--the North won the Civil War, in the long term--ideologically--victory went to the South. The continual expansion of the Western frontier allowed a Southern ...

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This post may contain links from our sponsors and affiliates, and Flywheel Publishing may receive compensation for actions taken through them. The Civil War is the bloodiest conflict in U.S. history.

The Civil War was the deadliest conflict ever fought on American soil with approximately 620,000 fatalities, according to History.com. Recent analysis could even suggest these numbers are higher than ...