He had experience in Congress as both a representative and senator, and had been secretary of war under President Franklin ...

By Febrary 1, 1861, six more states -- Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas -- had split from the Union ... the Civil War ended with the surrender of the Confederate ...

The deadliest conflict in American history, the Civil War, also had some of ... also suggested that the Confederate states fared much worse than the Union, with a mortality rate more than twice ...

The Battle of Bull Run, the first major clash in the Civil War, ended in a Confederate victory. It shattered illusions that ...

Between 1861 and 1865, both the Confederate ... own civil war. At the heart of this comparison is a desire to understand how and why nineteenth-century nations rose and either endured or disappeared. ...

The second emblem is an adaptation of an original 1863 illustration of the Wren Yard that depicts Union and Confederate soldiers ... academic building in the United States, and its rebirth as part of ...

The Civil War has been given many names: the War Between the States ... became a legend in the Confederate army only after turning down an offer to command the entire Union force.

Helzer (1946-2008), Founder of Unicover Corporation The American Civil War lasted almost four years to the day. When it was over, when the sounds of the battlefield were at last stilled, the course of ...

For several decades, the cremated remains of more than two dozen American Civil ... 1861-1865 war to preserve the Union, fought between the North's Union Army and the Confederate States of America ...

Irvine's tombstone was restored in 2009 by a different neo-Confederate group, the Sons of Confederate Veterans. At the foot of both sits the iron cross of the Confederate States of America.