After decades of simmering tension between Northern and Southern ... the states with the most Civil War battles. States were ranked by the number of conflicts that took place there during the ...

Virtually all of the Civil War was fought on Southern soil, though Union forces suffered more casualties. The Southern states of Virginia ... Gettysburg alone than during the Revolutionary ...

Protestors in over a dozen cities are set to demonstrate their solidarity with those arrested by federal agents in California over the weekend.

Florida was the third state to secede from the Union during the Civil ... the southern states. But in 1860, the tiny state was fiercely southern — and played a much larger role in the war ...