Tom Wolff “We’ve tended to see soldiers in the 1860s as stoic and heroic—monuments to duty, honor and sacrifice,” says Lesley Gordon, editor of Civil War History, a leading academic ...

By the summer of 1860 he was working as ... the letters along with other Civil War artifacts, including a Federal Forage Cap worn by Union soldiers, a canteen, a regimental flag, a glass inkwell ...

Courtesy of First Baptist Church In 1860, there was a small population ... youth groups to educate them on the Black soldiers who fought in the Civil War and hailed from either their county ...

After all, Arizona wasn't even a state in the 1860s; it was part the New Mexico Territory and wouldn't become a state for more than 50 years after the war. So were there ties to the Civil War ...

Courtesy: Library of Congress From 1861 to 1865, the Civil War ravaged America ... enslaved persons in the U.S. in 1860 180,000 — Number of African American soldiers that served in the Civil ...

“The African race makes excellent soldiers,” Miner said ... as a sergeant in the U.S. Army and fight in the American Civil War to end the enslavement of Black people.

On November 6, 1860 Abraham Lincoln was elected President ... Federal troops returned the fire. The Civil War had begun. Immediately following the attack, four more states -- Virginia, Arkansas ...

Lucien Weakley’s weathered headstone stands beneath a towering magnolia tree that is surrounded by the graves of thousands of other Confederate soldiers ... quantify the Civil War’s staggering ...