There might not be a lot of mystery surrounding how the Civil War turned out when it ended in April 1865. In the simplest of oversimplified nutshells: The Union ... Regiment’s Flag in Minnesota ...

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Ten months into the Civil War, the Union was short on ... with a torn Confederate flag under his foot. Library of Congress The Union Army acted decisively to press its caffeine advantage.

The artifact’s current owner turned to Fleischer’s, which also sold the sword of Civil War Union Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman last May, to list the flag for bidding. The auction house ...

The Republican party had run on an anti-slavery platform, and many southerners felt that there was no longer a place for them in the Union ... on April 18, 1865, the Civil War ended with the ...

The American Civil War is a pivotal and ugly moment in American ... actually come to an end in the United States. In June 1865, Union troops led by General Gordon Granger arrived in Galveston ...

But this small square of tattered, tawny fabric is believed to be a piece of the flag Union troops hoisted above Fort Sumter to announce their surrender — and the start of the Civil War.

Between 1861 and 1865, the Union, or northern states, and the Confederacy, or southern states, fought each other in the American Civil War. A major dispute over slavery was the primary cause of ...

For several decades, the cremated remains of more than two dozen American Civil War veterans languished ... lessons about the 1861-1865 war to preserve the Union, fought between the North's ...

ISBN: 0807835889 Well known for his numerous works on the Civil War, in War on the Waters Prof ... a look at the naval resources of each side on the outbreak of war, slender for the Union and ...