The year: 1861. The problem: Pro-slavery states had broken away from the Union, rising up in armed revolt as the treasonous ...

History: Florida paid dearly for its role in the Civil War, winding up both broken and broke for years afterward ...

With Louisiana’s militias off fighting in Virginia and Tennessee, the job of defending the Crescent City fell to two forts ...

Ten months into the Civil War, the Union was short on a crucial supply ... but also resistant to diseases that affected other varieties, and it won Liberia plenty of new trading partners: By ...

The Union army, led by General Ulysses S ... stand at the Battle of Little Big Horn than his role in the Civil War, gave the side table and her portion of the surrender towel.

Readers of newspapers across America 160 years ago this week would have seen two similar headlines on the front page of their paper trumpeting the end of the Civil War: “Victory, Victory” and “The ...

One of the most important battles of the U.S. Civil ... Union Army of the Potomac under General George Meade, fought what may have been the most crucial battle of the war. If the South had won ...