As a historian of the American Civil War, I study how the Confederate government used a radical idea: printing paper money. In 1861, 11 states tried to leave the United States and form a new ...

SHARED MISSION Civil War center, Confederacy museum join forces Pair will form new entity to advance shared mission BY KATHERINE CALOS Richmond Times-Dispatch Nov 17, 2013 Updated Jul 22, 2014 0 ...

Approximately 2.4 million soldiers were engaged in the Civil War, with around 1.56 million fighting for the North and an estimated 800,000 for the South (although Confederate records remain ...

The Historical Fort Branch Society announced the move on its Facebook page on May 19. The Confederate Civil War site has since relocated its artifacts to a secure location.

All scalawags were excoriated in the white southern press, but none as viciously as Longstreet. Longstreet’s life (1821–1904) spanned the era of sectional conflict, Civil War, and Reconstruction.

Confederate symbols of Civil War divide U.S. 150 years on By Wayne Hester June 24, 20157:30 PM PDTUpdated June 24, 2015 ...

Civil War remains found at Colonial Williamsburg, archaeologists say Virginia archaeologists recently came across four skeletons dating back to the Battle of Williamsburg, which was fought in 1862 ...

A life mask of Confederate General Robert E. Lee is on display at the American Civil War Center in Richmond, Va., Tuesday, June 19, 2007.

McKinley understood the Civil War as one who had lived it, having served four years in the 23rd Ohio Infantry, enlisting as a private and discharged in 1865 as a brevet major. He knew the steps to ...

There are many misconceptions about Florida's history, including the state's stance on, or involvement in, the Civil War — which officially began April 12, 1861, when Confederate forces opened ...