After the Civil War, Arkansas veterans returned home and attempted to revert to civilian life. During the immediate postwar ...

The year: 1861. The problem: Pro-slavery states had broken away from the Union, rising up in armed revolt as the treasonous ...

The Civil War had begun. Immediately following the attack, four more states -- Virginia, Arkansas, North Carolina, and Tennessee -- severed their ties with the Union. To retain the loyalty of the ...

Ten months into the Civil ... of the war. Though coffee was cultivated around the world from Java to Ethiopia to Haiti, Brazil had been the main supplier to the United States. The Union blockade ...

On the morning of September 29, 1864, as dawn broke over eastern Virginia, some 700 1 black soldiers in the 4th and 6th regiments of the Union Army ... a footnote in Civil War history—a battle ...

The Civil War was a military ... in which states’ rights and the institution of slavery were points of extreme contention. The Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which abolished slavery, ...

Photograph showing Union soldiers with rifles at attention ... slavery should be allowed into the Union as new states. But he feared the Civil War would shatter his beloved nation.

The Civil War ... States.” At Lee’s request, Grant even allowed Confederates who owned their own horses to keep them so that they could tend their farms and plant spring crops. A Union officer ...