Approximately 2.4 million soldiers were engaged in the Civil War, with around 1.56 million fighting for the North and an estimated 800,000 for the South (although Confederate records remain ...

The CSS "Shenandoah" only learned of the Confederacy's defeat in the summer of 1865. That June, the cruiser's crew sank 24 ...

Confederate forces bombarded Fort Sumter in South Carolina, marking the start of the American Civil War. Confederates viewed Fort Sumter as a symbol of federal authority and demanded its surrender.

On the moonlit night of June 2, 1863, Harriet Tubman and 300 Union soldiers, many of them Black, departed Beaufort, South Carolina, on three gunboats. They sailed in stealth up the Coosaw River until ...

Spotlight on a letter from a young Union soldier interested in a commission with an African American regiment and a tintype of a young master and his slave, Silas Chandler, who fought together in ...

The Civil War officially ended on Aug. 20, 1866, but Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrendered his army 16 months earlier on April 9, 1865.

An American Civil War monument on the Jessamine County Courthouse lawn in Kentucky honors those who fought in the Confederacy. But the statue wears a Union soldier’s hat.

The Civil War started in April 1861 and raged for over four years. From Fort Sumter to Appomattox and beyond, here are the most basic facts you need.

In 1898, 33 years after the end of the Civil War, the Spanish-American War brought a sudden, unanticipated harmony and unity to a country that had been riven by war and a punitive postwar military ...

What Was the Civil War? Between 1861 and 1865, the Union, or northern states, and the Confederacy, or southern states, fought each other in the American Civil War.

Spotlight on a letter from a young Union soldier interested in a commission with an African American regiment and a tintype of a young master and his slave, Silas Chandler, who fought together in ...