During the Civil War, Confederates targeted free Black people in the North, kidnapping them to sell into slavery. After the ...

The American Civil War (1861–1865) remains one of the most defining chapters in the nation’s past, forging our modern ...

African American men rushed to enlist ... Finally, on April 18, 1865, the Civil War ended with the surrender of the Confederate army. 617,000 Americans had died in the war, approximately the ...

Courtesy: Library of Congress From 1861 to 1865, the Civil War ravaged ... 2.5 — Approximate percentage of the American population that died in the Civil War 7 million — Number of Americans ...

The Civil War was fought in 10,000 places, from Valverde, New Mexico, and Tullahoma, Tennessee, to St. Albans, Vermont, and Fernandina on the Florida coast. More than 3 million Americans fought ...

Recipes from a time when Southern infrastructure was a long way from being restored, but families had to keep everyone fed.

Following the American Civil War and the abolition ... prepared to take action to end segregation in the USA. In 1865, the Civil War in America ended. The northern states had defeated the southern ...

Fifty-five years of living in the Southeast during which we enjoyed lots of travel resulted in visiting most of the National ...

After the American Civil War of 1861–1865, the growth of cities and the railroads led to greater contact between blacks and whites in the American South. Southerners felt the need to introduce a ...

Although the American Civil War ended April 9, 1865, when Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee surrendered the Army of Northern Virginia to Union Gen. Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Courthouse, the war ...

That was certainly the case for the October 4, 1865, issue. This was a mere six months after the end of the Civil War, at a time when Southern states were still in rough shape overall. Slavery was ...