In the South, most slaves did not hear of the proclamation for months. But the purpose of the Civil War had now changed. The North was not only fighting to preserve the Union, it was fighting to ...

Civil War reenactors stepped back 160 years to the Battle of Gettysburg Sunday at the Northbrook Sports Club in Hainesville. The American Civil War Encampment and Battle included costumed Union ...

Civil War rifles were accurate for hundreds of yards, with some being deadly at up to 1,000 yards. ( These are the 14 guns that helped fight the Revolutionary War .) ...

More from Wes about the causes of the Civil War. What led to ... territorial expansion. The South wished to take slavery into the western territories, while the North was committed to keeping ...

The story of the Civil War is all about division within one’s own country. But the schisms ran deeper than just North against South—there were also cracks within the Union itself, even after ...

As Rhett Butler pointed out in "Gone with the Wind," there were just some things the South lacked during the Civil War era that the North had in massive amounts — and it just so happened that ...

South Carolina. On April 12, Lincoln ordered a fleet to resupply Fort Sumter, and the first shots of the Civil War were fired. North Carolina, Virginia, Arkansas and Tennessee then joined the ...