Abraham Lincoln made a stopover at Cincinnati on his way to his inauguration in 1861, just as the nation was falling apart.

The Battle of Cold Harbor was the Confederacy’s last major Civil War victory. Does it offer any insight into the mysterious ...

The American Civil War (1861–1865) remains one of the most defining chapters in the nation’s past, forging our modern ...

Courtesy: Library of Congress From 1861 to 1865, the Civil War ravaged ... deaths to Union deaths 9:1 — Ratio of African American Civil War troops who died of disease to those that died on ...

On November 6, 1860 Abraham Lincoln was elected President of the United States -- an event that outraged ... Federal troops returned the fire. The Civil War had begun. Immediately following ...

The Montgomery Conference yesterday passed an act recognizing war with the United States ... for the first time since the civil discord in the United States, an American vessel hoisted the ...

On April 12, 1861, the cannons rang out over Fort Sumter, S.C., as the United States of America was on the brink of war. Over the next five years, more than 620,000 soldiers – Union and ...

The Fourteenth Amendment was the product of a democratic revolutionary change that sought to put the Constitution on a ...

Minnesota Gov. Alexander Ramsey answered President Abraham Lincoln’s initial call for volunteer Union troops at the outset of the American Civil War with an offer of 1,000 Minnesota ...

After the American Civil War of 1861–1865, the growth of cities and the railroads led to greater contact between blacks and whites in the American South. Southerners felt the need to introduce a ...