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

It was in this month in 1865 the Civil War was ... surrender of the war. The religious faith of these men was varied like the American population today. On the Union side, Grant was raised in ...

Famous Union commanders of the Civil War, 1861-65, c. 1884. Source: Library of Congress Prominent Union and Confederate generals and statesmen as they appeared during the great Civil War, 1861-5 ...

Women veterans from the Civil War, World War II ... Thompson was caught behind enemy lines and led Union troops back to capture a rebel general. Though removed from Defense Department servers ...

Readers of newspapers across America 160 years ago this week would have seen two similar headlines on the front page of their ...