This anecdote reflects a historiographical debate about the Civil War in general ... factors in explaining why the Confederacy lost. Immediately after the war, many influential Confederates ...

did not satisfy the Confederacy, and on April 12 they attacked Fort Sumter, a federal stronghold in Charleston, South Carolina. Federal troops returned the fire. The Civil War had begun.

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 ...

Known as Pickett’s Charge, the assault became one of the Civil War’s most infamous failures, with Confederate forces suffering catastrophic losses in under an hour. Poor coordination ...

"Incidents of the war: A harvest of death ... Number of Southerners mobilized for the Confederacy 50 — Estimated percentage of Civil War deaths that occurred in the last two years of the ...

Richard Kreitner's "Fear No Pharoah" gives an honest account of how Jews resisted, ignored and even championed American ...

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.

While the march devastated plantations, railroads, and towns, civilian casualties were low, and it played a key role in hastening the end of the Civil War. Still, the operation remains one of the ...