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.

Pillow, Tennessee on April 12, 1864 100,000+ — Number of Civil War Union corpses found in the South through a federal reinterment program from 1866-1869 303,356 — Number of Union soldiers who ...

During the Civil War, Confederates targeted free Black people in the North, kidnapping them to sell into slavery. After the ...

One can hardly imagine what the night of Feb. 17, 1865, must have been like in Charleston. Hours before surrendering to Union ...

In 1993, she went to federal court after the National ... Cashier’s fellow soldiers — crusty old Civil War veterans — stepped in to defend him. When he died, they made sure he was buried ...

The story illustrates how in the Civil War, the presence of a common ... for the Confederacy as North and South went to war. It was the federal government, responsible for robbing Cherokee of ...

Austin tiptoed through the Civil War. The major battlefields lay ... but no fortifications were built around the city until federal troops threatened distantly from Galveston, the Red River ...