By a stroke of historical happenstance, decades later, Barka Gana’s son, Nicholas Said, would serve as a sergeant in the U.S. Army and fight in the American Civil War to end the enslavement of ...

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

Death and the American Civil War. We’re talking about the costs of the war Maxwell—director of “Gods and Generals” and “Gettysburg”—has made a career of interpreting. “All of the ...

History: Florida paid dearly for its role in the Civil War, winding up both broken and broke for years afterward ...

Things came to a head in 1860 when the northerner ... itself “thrilled by the death of our oppressor." The American Civil War left a bitter legacy. In the south, burned and devastated, the ...

Of the approximately 210,000 counted in Georgia during the 1860 ... study American history,” Jensen said. The same census records could conceivably help researchers estimate Civil War death ...