Articles related to "The American Civil War"

Years before the outbreak of the Civil War, Northerners and Southerners were sharply divided over whether the territories taken from Mexico should be opened to slavery.

An unlikely hero would stall the Yankee advance on Richmond in April of 1862.

Females played an essential role during the Civil War. Some preferred the more dangerous and scandalous roles of being spies. The most appealing spy was Belle Boyd.

The epic clash over slavery and secession between the American North and South would inspire artwork at the time and into the 20th century.

Learn little-known-facts about the War Between the States in these nonfiction books on the American Civil War.

The Malayan peninsula had three main advantages that enabled it to become part of the global trading system for more than a thousand years.

The American Civil War created relationships between government and business concerns that continued after the war and sparked Gilded Age industrialization.

The participation of Italian soldiers and volunteers during the American civil war could have been more relevant if General Garibaldi had accepted to lead them.

President Lincoln not only had to deal with the Civil War, but he also had to deal with a band of Dakota Indians attacking white settlers in Minnesota in 1862.

Clay Allison was one of the most ill tempered, violent, and psychotic killers of his era and coined the phrase "Shootist"

Fifty years of films diversely depicting the American Civil War to Reconstruction, North to South, Vivien Leigh to Elizabeth Taylor, James Stewart to Denzel Washington...

Gettysburg is worth a visit: the museum and visitor center of the National Military Park and the Cyclorama, potentially the most famous painting of the USA, are restored.

Contemporaries, historians, as well as military experts have debated General Lee's leadership at the Battle of Gettysburg as a possible cause of the Confederate defeat.

Missouri proposes to enter the Union as a slave state, instigating the Missouri Compromise. Maine enters the Union as a free state.

What were the political causes of the American Civil War? What differences led to the War Between the States? And what lessons can we take from the war?

Late in the administration of President Johnson, General Ulysses S Grant argued with the President and in doing so; found himself aligned with the Radical Republicans.

Harriet Tubman is one of the most prominent African-American figures. The leader of the Underground Railroad, she aided many slaves in escaping to freedom.

In 1874, Alferd Packer, a gold prospector from Utah, walked out of the Colorado Rocky Mountains with a terrifying tale of starvation, madness, and cannibalism.

The life, times and works of this brilliant 19th century writer whose death remains an unsolved mystery to this very day

Traditionally, Texas' Civil War experiences excluded those of black slaves even though they were also first-hand witnesses.

Thomas "Boston" Corbett mortally wounded the assassin in a tobacco barn. Goaded by the pressures of fame, Corbett went insane and was committed to an insane asylum.

For a variety of reasons, thousands of Canadians headed south of the border during the U.S. Civil War, and took up arms with the North or the South.

Former Texas Ranger Charles Goodnight built the first cattle ranch in the Texas panhandle and became one of the wealthiest cattle barons in the American West.

During the Mexican War, Jefferson Davis becomes known as The Hero of Buena Vista. The American Civil War begins and he is made President of the Confederacy.

There were several strategy options available to Confederate leaders at the beginning of the Civil War to oppose the Union plan.

Approximately two thousand women, North and South, served as volunteer nurses in military hospitals during the American Civil War.

Dr.Samuel Mudd of Maryland, was accused of setting the broken leg of Lincoln assassin John Wilkes Booth, of the famous acting dynasty...thus contributing to treason.

One of the famous arguments in civil war history had to do with James Longstreet's July 2, 1863 flank attack on the Union left at Gettysburg Pennsylvania.

General Burnside was an American Civil War officer and popular Rhode Island politician who invented a new type of rifle and had a men's whiskers style named after him.

General Pierre Beauregard, a Confederate general during the American Civil War, saw action at Fort Sumter, First Bull Run, First Manassa, Shiloh, Corinth, and Petersburg.

Twenty years after its release, the motion picture Glory is still well worth watching -- even for those who have seen it before.

The novel Gone With The Wind is sometimes forgotten because of the famous film, but there is much more to this classic than just romance.

Jefferson Davis, future president of the Confederacy, is born in Kentucky. Years later he attends West Point and fights in the Black Hawk war.

Jefferson Davis believes that slavery is necessary to establish the southern cotton trade and that emancipation will eventually come.

John Fitzgerald, the son of Irish immigrants, at age 22, leaves medical school to support his eight motherless brothers after their father dies.

John Wesley Hardin, Texas gunman and killer, could shoot a man to death using either hand, or both, to fire his deadly weapons.

John Wesley Hardin, after a Waco, Texas shoot-out, is put in jail. He kills his jailer and escapes.

Some 350,000 hand-sewn stitches were used in making the wool bunting flag that would fly over Fort McHenry during the War of 1812.

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Nathan Bedford Forrest and the Civil War South carried a legacy of carnage that continues even to this day.

In the Battle of Cross Keys the Confederate forces were commanded by Stonewall Jackson, whilst the Union forces were commanded by George McClellan.

General Robert E. Lee made a conscious effort to live by high standards throughout his life.

Sam Houston, soldier and revolutionary, lived among the Cherokee, served as governor of Texas and Tennessee, and played a vital role in the founding of Texas.

With the coming of the American Civil War a telegraph line is strung across the nation, connecting the east to the west. On October 24, 1861, the Pony Express is through.

The torpedo was an ingenious weapon designed to mimic a piece of coal destined for a steamer's boiler. It was virtually undetectable and caused devastating explosions.

While America fought out the Civil War , the cotton weavers of Lancashire were brought to the brink of starvation.

Tall, stately and formal, James Buchanan was the only President who never married.

Jefferson Davis' first wife dies shortly after their marriage. Some years later, he marries teenaged Varina Howell.

Franklin Pierce presided over some of the most crucial years in American history - the years which many see as those which may have led America directly toward a Civil Wa

Called "Old Rough and Ready," Zachary Taylor earned his fame in the Mexican-American War, and was elected President solely on this experience.