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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Kentucky was technically neutral during the Civil War, but it was also home to Company E of the United States Colored Cavalry ... when Miller found a single 1936 map that clearly marked a Civil ...

At the dawn of the Civil War, New York City was led by Fernando ... After Lincoln’s victory provoked seven Southern slave states to secede from the Union in just eight weeks, Wood unashamedly ...

Several states in the south still observe Confederate Memorial Day in April as an official holiday, giving state workers the day off to pay homage to the those died during the Civil 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 ...