South Carolina is one of only four states to observe the day as a state holiday, celebrating the lives of soldiers who fought ...

South Carolina is one of only four states to observe the day as a state holiday, celebrating the lives of soldiers who fought to preserve slavery.

Thomas Jonathan 'Stonewall' Jackson's death and the capture of Jefferson Davis ... William Sherman at Bennett Place, N.C. Yes, the 11 Southern states that made up the Confederacy during the Civil ...

Some great TV shows use the American Civil War as a backdrop or as a major narrative pillar. Here are the best ones.

William Sherman at Bennett Place, North Carolina. Many in the Confederacy felt that negotiation marked the end of the Civil War. Gen ... President Jefferson Davis on the first Monday in June ...

After four years of death and disruption in the Civil War ... after fighting stopped. William Decker, for example, was killed near Richmond in the last days of the war, and the teen’s body ...

After the Civil War, 18 veterans of the United States Colored ... “The town’s spirit is centered in the church,” the Rev. William F. Holt, a former pastor of St. Stephens AME Church in ...

His poem about Revere’s ride was meant as a call for unity and action among abolitionists on the eve of the Civil War. Longfellow picked Revere over William ... Washington, D.C. “And that ...

In a sense, the five proslavery settlers were casualties not merely of Brown’s bloody-mindedness but also of a law described by historians William ... the law made civil war unavoidable?

During the Civil War, spy operations were instrumental in determining the ... offered Cushman a significant amount of money to propose a toast to Confederate president Jefferson Davis. Seizing the ...