The fighting of the American Civil War ultimately reached nearly every state in the Northern and Southern territories, with ...

National Museum of American History One-hundred-and-fifty years ago, on April 9, 1865, a lone Confederate ... soil was coming to an end. The Civil War was entering its fifth year.

How much do you know about the Civil War? Our history quiz covers some of the basic Civil War questions that we feel are ...

An curved arrow pointing right. Garry Adelman, a historian, rates nine American Civil War battles in movies. He comments on the Civil War-era artillery and rifles on display in "Free State of ...

Known as a ferocious fighter, A.P. Hill was promoted to lieutenant general shortly before his death in 1865 ... of a dozen battles was killed at Petersburg, just before the war's end.

The Civil War, an epic nine-episode series by the award-winning documentary filmmaker Ken Burns and produced in conjunction with WETA, Washington, D.C., first aired in September of 1990 to an ...