Success against the rebels’ fortress, which had never been touched in four years of war ... approximately 1,800 2 soldiers arrayed against them were members of the Texas Confederacy, opponents ...

Florida was the third state to secede from the Union during the Civil ... the war was over, Florida would be more economically devastated than any other state except Virginia. When the Confederacy ...

The Civil War was an extremely divisive time in American history that split the North and South into the Union and the Confederacy, resulting in almost four years of war within the country.

After the Civil War ... States during the war, most of the landed gentry of Talbot County had been fiercely secessionist. Eighty-four sons of Talbot fought for the Confederacy; one of them ...

At the time of the Civil War ... covering the war from the opening salvos in April 1861 through the fall of the Confederacy four years later. Davis later described what it took to be a war ...

First, reclaim the Shenandoah Valley from the Fed eral army that had managed, for the first time in the war, to occupy the granary of the Confederacy ... of the spreading civil war.

On New Year's Day 1863, Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, freeing slaves in the Confederacy. In his Second Inaugural Address, Lincoln endowed the Civil War with sacred meaning ...

The American Civil War Museum at Historic Tredegar and the White House of the Confederacy can both be found in Richmond, while the Museum of the Confederacy at Appomattox sits in Appomattox ...

resulted in mass casualties and ultimately led to the Confederacy’s defeat. “The Battle of Gettysburg was what most historians consider to be the turning point of the Civil War,” auction ...

Eleven southern states decided to break away from the Union, and established an independent and separate government, the Confederacy ... The American Civil War left a bitter legacy.