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 ...

Meigs, future Quartermaster General for the Union Army during the Civil War, received the mission ... interests of the South, since the Southern states depended on slavery to maintain their ...

Polk; and both the Union and the Confederacy were internally divided during the Civil War ... before the war, Southern and Eastern Europeans had immigrated to the United States in unprecedented ...

As Rhett Butler pointed out in "Gone with the Wind," there were just some things the South lacked during the Civil War era that ... be Confederate states. It's not that the Southern economy ...

You’ve probably heard this one: Before the Civil War, Americans felt a stronger allegiance to their state than to the country as a whole. That’s why people said “The United States are ...

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 ...

The war resulted from decades of 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 ...