The seceded states created the Confederate States of America and elected ... rest worries over the willingness of black soldiers to fight. Soon other regiments were being formed, and in May ...

Most Missouri soldiers fought for the Union Army ... He was so dead-set on Missouri becoming a Confederate state that he ignored the fact that Missouri had sided with the Union.

Four of Abraham Lincoln's own brothers-in-law fought on the Confederate side, and one was killed. The little town of Winchester, Virginia, changed hands 72 times during the war, and the state of ...

Congress had pushed past President Trump’s veto to rename Fort Bragg, named for a Confederate general, in the final days of ...

On Sunday, Jan. 19, the state of Florida officially honors the birth of a man who led armies to fight against the United States of America. Robert E. Lee's birthday is one of three Confederate ...

As a Confederate soldier, he fought for the Southern pro-slavery states who wanted to break away from the Union. The conflict prompted Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation in 1863 ...

New Civil War research armed with more data gives the fullest picture yet of not just the overall death toll but its disproportionate impact on the South, including Georgia.