the American Civil War was a brutal conflict between the anti-slavery Union in the north and the pro-slavery Confederacy in the south. Taking place between 1861 and 1865, it was arguably the first ...

In 1875, Congress paid Brady $25,000 for full title to his Civil War images. A kidney condition ... taken in April of 1865, were the last before the President's death. He also documented ...

click image for close-up By the time this photo was taken, William Lloyd Garrison's dream of a United States with no slavery had been realized. In 1865, at the close of the Civil War, and after ...