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

Spotlight on a letter from a young Union ... Tell each side to imagine that they have been charged by their military superiors with developing military strategy for the Civil War with respect ...

Ten months into the Civil War, the Union was short on ... with a torn Confederate flag under his foot. Library of Congress The Union Army acted decisively to press its caffeine advantage.

National Museum of American History One-hundred-and-fifty years ago, on April 9, 1865, a lone Confederate horseman violently waving a white towel as a flag ... the Civil War, gave the side table ...

which also sold the sword of Civil War Union Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman last May, to list the flag for bidding. The auction house, one of the nation’s leading purveyors of early American ...