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

The Civil War had begun ... with secession and remained loyal to the Union. Many poor southern whites became disillusioned during the course of the war. Wealthy planters had been granted ...

For several years, the confederate statue in Madisonville has made waves in Hopkins County. Now, enough money has been raised ...

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

The Civil War ... hands 72 times during the war, and the state of Missouri sent 39 regiments to fight in the siege of Vicksburg: 17 to the Confederacy and twenty-two to the Union.

Ten months into the Civil War, the Union was short on a crucial supply ... Africans—captured and forced across the Red Sea during a 1,300-year period of slave trade that began in the seventh ...

The Jessamine County Courthouse lawn is home to a one-of-a-kind Confederate Civil ... during the Civil War and at the time, Jessamine County residents were relatively split between support for the ...

The Militia Act, passed by Congress in 1862, allowed free Black men and formerly enslaved men to fight for the U.S. during ... 70 Black Union military members who fought in the Civil War from ...