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 Civil War was the bloodiest and most destructive conflict in American history. From the beginning of the war in April 1861 to the end ... multiple Southern states, starting with South Carolina ...

The American Civil War wasn't just a battle between states—it was a showcase of incredible military talent. From 1861 to 1865 ... The Wizard of the Saddle Starting the war as a private and ...

When Abraham Lincoln took his oath of office, the last thing on his mind was starting a civil war ... to fire the first shot of the Civil War. In March, 1861, a group of Southern commissioners ...

Who would be chosen "Person of the Year, 1861"? Five historians had made impassioned ... All across the bloodstained arc where the Civil War raged, and beyond, Americans are deciding how to ...

The American Civil War was fought from 1861 until 1865. Starting with the Missouri Compromise and ending with the election of Abraham Lincoln, this lesson discusses nine major events leading up to ...

More than 45,000 Northerners were held at Camp Sumter during the 14 months that this most notorious of Civil War prisons was operational. Nearly 13,000 men died from disease, malnutrition ...

Incidentally, the fort where the Civil War started back in 1861; Fort Sumter ... with the volunteer coordinators at the various parks starting at 1:00 PM. Since 1996, the Civil War Trust has ...

Gallery: The Photos of the Civil War Is there an inch of battleground, a day or a minute between 1861 and 1865 left unexamined ... So consider this list a mere starting point.

On April 17, 1861, five days after the start of the Civil War, the call to arms to put down ... on Dec. 16, 1864, he wrote of his qualms starting the letter, “Well, Sarah, I want to write ...

THIS FALL, Texas schools will teach students that Moses played a bigger role in inspiring the Constitution than slavery did in starting the Civil War ... issue at play in 1861 was secondary ...

The couple was married in May 1861, just as the Civil War was starting. “When you dig into this kind of stuff, they didn’t know we were going to read it… They were very impacted by slavery ...