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

Lieutenant and later Captain ... 9 The War Grinds on As 1861 continued into 1862 and 1863 the Union struggled to keep the Army at full strength with repeated calls to the state governors to ...

McClellan assumed the role of general in chief of the Union armies, a post voluntarily vacated by the ailing 75-year-old Lt. Gen. Winfield Scott, who had been a target of McClellan’s barbs in ...

By Febrary 1, 1861, six more states -- Mississippi ... As the northern army pushed southward, thousands of fugitives fled across Union lines. Neither the federal authorities nor the army were ...

When the Civil War began in the spring of 1861, thousands of men across the northern states were enlisted to fight for the Union, including Lothrop Wight. He was a Second Lieutenant in the 16th ...

Here’s what happened in April 1861, leading up to the firing on Fort Sumter in Charleston, South Carolina, which spurred the launch of the American Civil War.