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Nov 9, 2009 · Jefferson Davis, the president of the Confederate States of America during the Civil War, also served in the Mexican-American War and in the U.S. Congress.
Oct 29, 2009 · Robert E. Lee was a Confederate general who led the South’s attempt at secession during the Civil War. He challenged Union forces during the war’s bloodiest battles, including Antietam and ...
Oct 29, 2009 · Reconstruction, the turbulent era following the U.S. Civil War, was an effort to reunify the divided nation, address and integrate African Americans into society by rewriting the nation's laws and ...
Nov 9, 2009 · Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson (1824-63) was one of the South’s most successful generals during the American Civil War (1861-65). After a difficult childhood, he graduated from the U.S. Military ...
Mar 5, 2021 · Here are seven battles that proved pivotal in the American Civil War. 1. First Bull Run. A Union supply train races down a road during the First Battle of Bull Run, Virginia, the first major ...
Apr 14, 2010 · On July 18, 1863, the 54th Massachusetts stormed Fort Wagner, which guarded the Port of Charleston, in South Carolina. It was the first time in the Civil War that Black troops led an infantry ...
Nov 9, 2009 · The Appomattox Court House, located in Virginia, is where Gen. Robert E. Lee surrendered to Gen. Ulysses S. Grant in April 1865, bringing an end to the Civil War.
