So successful was the Lost Cause propaganda campaign that most Americans forgot the true meaning of the Civil War.

The Republican party had run on an anti-slavery platform, and many southerners felt that there was no longer a place for them in the Union ... Civil War ended with the surrender of the Confederate ...

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

Since the end of the Civil War, have we thrived hard to build ... This was a horrific fight in which the Union blew up the Confederate trenches, creating a crater in which both the Union and ...

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