4:1 — The ratio of people who attended church weekly to those who voted in the 1860 election 2.5 — Approximate percentage of the American population that died in the Civil War 7 million ...

The fighting of the American Civil War ultimately reached nearly every state in the Northern and Southern territories, with ...

The American Civil War was arguably one of the most devastating conflicts in the history of the United States. Fought over slavery, it divided families and communities and, of course, the nation.

For the first time in 50 years, three brothers — John J. Casseday, George Casseday and Samuel Casseday — got together. All three, along with a fourth brother (and, by the way, their father) fought in ...

In the south, it was an agricultural society, traditional, conservative, many people living on plantations ... the death of our oppressor." The American Civil War left a bitter legacy.