Most folks will tell you the Civil War began April 12, 1861, with the first shots fired on Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbor. Many historians, however, say the war actually began 164 years ago this ...

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

By Febrary 1, 1861, six more states -- Mississippi ... Federal troops returned the fire. The Civil War had begun. Immediately following the attack, four more states -- Virginia, Arkansas, North ...

The Montgomery Conference yesterday passed an act recognizing war with the United States ... In the Prince's Dock, yesterday, for the first time since the civil discord in the United States ...

Beginning with a searing indictment of slavery, this first episode dramatically evokes the causes of the war, from the Cotton Kingdom of the South to the northern abolitionists who opposed it.

The American Civil War raged from 1861 to 1865 and permanently altered the nation's course. As one of the first modern conflicts to be waged, there is still a fair bit of intrigue and exploration ...

“To speak as the slave would, to say that we are as happy for the Civil War as most Americans are for the Revolutionary War, is to rupture the narrative.” ...