1865,” Record Group (RG) 94 (Records of the Adjutant General ... War); Stephen W. Sears, To the Gates of Richmond: The Peninsula Campaign (New York: Ticknor & Fields, 1992), p. 412n12. 3. J. Dane ...

4:1 — The ratio of people who attended church weekly to those who voted in the 1860 election 2.5 — Approximate percentage of the American population that died in the Civil War 7 million ...

Sean Michael Chick’s new biography of the important, but controversial, Confederate general P. G. T. Beauregard concentrates on the man in the Civil War. Unlike Robert E. Lee, he has not been the ...

We usually envision blue and gray armies battling it out east of Arizona when we think of the American Civil War, between the North and South way far away from the Grand Canyon and desert Southwest.

The Struggle to End the American Civil War.” The book challenges the traditional narrative that the Civil War ended neatly in April 1865 with the surrender of General Robert Lee to General Ulysses ...

The American Civil War was arguably one of the most devastating conflicts in the history of the United States. Fought over slavery, it divided families and communities and, of course, the nation.