On July 4, the United States of America will celebrate its 250th anniversary. There’s also another major historical ...

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Most folks will tell you the Civil War began April 12, 1861, with the first shots fired on Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbor. Many historians, however, say the war actually began 164 years ago this ...

The first day of November 1861 was the last full day the nearly 1,000 soldiers of the 27th Massachusetts would be home. It was a time of farewell parties, gifts of swords, pistols and cash to the ...

The newspaper supported the president through the months leading up to the war, the fall of Fort Sumter in April and the terrible defeat at Bull Run in July. In October, The Republican had to decide ...

During the long, slow descent into war at the start of 1861, Capt.Abner Doubleday filled the tedious hours at besieged Fort Sumter by designing a medal he thought Congress ought to award him and his ...

On April 12, 1861, the first shots of the Civil War rang out in South Carolina. Confederate forces, firing on the Union garrison at Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbor, helped launch a four-year war that ...

"We expect a fight every moment," a Confederate private reported from Virginia, where New York's 8th militia, pictured, camped. Library of Congress Though the confederates had bombarded Fort Sumter ...

More than two decades have passed since historian Jay Winik wrote about the end of the Civil War with a book with “April 1865: The Month That Saved America." His latest book covers the period of time ...

AGEOD's "American Civil War: the Blue and the Gray" is one of the best serious treatments of the Civil War ever made, for any platform -- PC or boardgame. But it's pitched to the grognard, not the ...