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(AP) Dozens of Civil War re-enactors gathered Thursday to commemorate the 150th anniversary of a famed attack by the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry a battle in South Carolina that showed the ...

The American Civil War was defined not only by its political and moral issues, but by a series of brutal, high-casualty battles. These conflicts altered the nation’s history and landscape. Fought on ...

Both the Union and the Confederacy believed God was on their side, using faith to justify their respective causes. Tyler Rice of Columbus, Ohio is a freelance historian specializing in religion and ...

Slave trading helped Southerners survive and fight the Civil War, as well as to build the future for which they fought. The crisis that was spawned by the War was mitigated by the trade in enslaved ...

NMAHMAI copy purchased with funds from the S. Dillon Ripley Endowment. The Civil War is remembered as a war of brother against brother, with women standing innocently on the sidelines. But battlefield ...

Introduction -- Part I. Southern women. One. Home and war: "domestic sanctuaries" on the run -- Two. Poor white women in the Confederacy: "enemies to their country" -- Three. Enslaved women: making ...

Lead from a Wythe County mine, salt from Saltville and the Virginia and Tennessee Railroad had “extraordinary significance” in the Civil War, according to a study by Robert C. Whisonant, geology ...