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How the American Civil War Started
The Kings and Generals animated documentary series launches its new chapter on the American Civil War with an in-depth look ...
In the earliest days of the Civil War, the Union Army focused on cutting off key supply lines on the periphery of the South. The approach was designed to hurt the South's economy and convince its ...
Christians, North and South, looked to biblical stories of deliverance to explain how society could be transformed. For Confederates, deliverance was simple: They would be delivered from the ...
By the time Lincoln took the oath of office, six more states had seceded. Sumter was, to the South, "a standing menace." The fort, and its 75 men, were commanded by Major Robert Anderson.
The North, for its part, pushed its own kind of purity, emphasizing emancipation and turning the war into a crusade. A handful of Westerners protested these narratives and argued that the “loyal west” ...
Because your days — and nights — were spent along the boundary between the Union (North) and the Confederacy (South) as the canal followed the Potomac River’s Maryland shore.
Civil War Miniseries ‘North and South’ Brewing at Discovery and Lionsgate. New series to come some 30 years after the Emmy-winning 'North and South' starring Kirstie Alley and Patrick Swayze.
Both armies in the Civil War thought God was on their side. Churches did not shy away from telling them so. November 23, 2019 at 12:00 p.m. | Updated November 23, 2019 at 2:50 p.m.
The Civil War officially ended on Aug. 20, 1866, but Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrendered his army 16 months earlier on April 9, 1865. ... North Carolina and South Carolina.
We usually envision blue and gray armies battling it out east of Arizona when we think of the American Civil War, between the North and South way far away from the Grand Canyon and desert ...