Federal troops returned the fire. The Civil War had begun. Immediately following the attack, four more states -- Virginia, Arkansas, North Carolina, and Tennessee -- severed their ties with the Union.

Abraham Lincoln was assassinated 160 years ago. There had been four years of terrible conflagration and the loss of thousands of lives. I have chosen to honor Black History Month by featuring two of ...

It sent the most troops to fight in the Civil War as part of the Confederacy before it was readmitted into the Union in 1868. North Carolina Officials Make Urgent Request to… UNC and Duke Health ...