Since then, our beautiful country has fought two other wars. We call them the First and Second World War. We have endured ...

Civil War drummer boy Willie Johnston received the Medal of Honor on Sept. 16, 1863, two months after his 13th birthday.

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

The Civil War had begun. Immediately following the attack ... Finally, on August 6, 1861, fugitive slaves were declared to be "contraband of war" if their labor had been used to aid the ...

The American Civil War (1861–1865) remains one of the most defining chapters in the nation’s past, forging our modern identity through tumultuous battles and profound social change.

Abraham Lincoln spent his birthday in Cincinnati on Feb. 12, 1861, on his way from Springfield ... Lincoln during Civil War Trying to keep Kentucky in the Union Lincoln spoke from the balcony ...

Christopher George uncovered a late 19th-century Civil War presentation sword in the attic of his historic family home, ...

Nevertheless, Fremont remained popular with abolitionists. Fremont’s 1861 proclamation played a crucial role in shaping the discourse on slavery during the Civil War, highlighting St. Louis’s key ...

Divided by Steve Sheinkin and Toby Cypress is a YA nonfiction graphic novel set in 1850s Washington DC, in a polarized nation ...

37 —Abraham Lincoln The Civil War was about slavery ... Abraham Lincoln, First Inaugural Address, Mar. 4, 1861. 41. Abraham Lincoln, Letter to Horace Greeley, Aug. 22, 1862.