The Civil War was one of the darkest periods in American history. Tensions between the Northern and Southern states led to an all-out war. The Northern states were better supplied and equipped ...

Yes, balloons. And bizarrely, it was tried and kind of worked. Back in the American Civil War, the American military founded its first aerial force, the Union Army Balloon Corps. Thank Union ...

However, if one hears the phrase "the Civil War," most would immediately associate it with the American Civil War. This was one of the most defining and brutal periods ever witnessed in the ...