A volunteer searching the archives of the American Baptist in Massachusetts has found a nearly 180-year-old document shedding ...

In this first episode of Kings and Generals’ animated series on the American Civil War, we explore the core causes of the conflict - including slavery, westward expansion, economic tensions, and ...

American Civil War Union Army troops march to the sea in this updated photo. ... 1865, Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrendered, ending the war, slavery and keeping the country intact.

Slavery was the Civil War's cause despite revisionists saying otherwise. Historian Adam Goodheart, who has a new book on the critical year of "1861" said he thinks part of the reason for that ...

The chaos of the Civil War meant only one thing to 4 million slaves: hope. With armies on the march, and the old social order crumbling, men like John Washington and Wallace Turnage seized the ...

In the Confederate circles he navigated, John Scobell was considered just another Mississippi slave: singing, shuffling, illiterate and completely ignorant of the Civil War going on around him.

Finally I knew that the Civil War was somehow related to slavery. ... 600,000 soldiers lost their lives in the Civil War, two percent of the American population at the time.

Many Confederate Irish owned slaves during the American Civil War 16 Irish-born men were Colonels or Generals in the Confederate forces what was their relationship with slavery?

Using African American troops, Gillmore later ordered the attack on Fort Sumter, with was retaken by the North in February 1865, almost four years after the Civil War began with the Confederates ...