The Feb. 16, 1861, visit was while Lincoln was enroute to his first inauguration and while the nation was on the brink of ...

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.

The Montgomery Conference yesterday passed an act recognizing war with the United States ... for the first time since the civil discord in the United States, an American vessel hoisted the ...

For Scott, the key to Union success in the Civil War lay with a highly trained and potentially expanded Regular Army. In a way, Scott was refighting the Mexican War.9 The War Grinds on As 1861 ...

Historical timeline of the development of modern weapons starting at 1364 with the first ... became the principal repeating gun of the Civil War. 1861 - Breech loaded guns in common use.

“A Rust 1861, W Garnett, V Hobartt 5th A G 1861,” read the faint cursive. Today, such casual vandalism within the boundaries of a national park would probably get you arrested, but the Park Service ...

In the early years of the Civil War ... with the start of the Civil War, which suddenly made American developments hot news across the globe. Not until May 1861 did Knight’s paper admit that ...