The fighting of the American Civil War ultimately reached nearly every state in the Northern and Southern territories, with ...
After the election of President Lincoln in 1860, seven southern states seceded and Civil War broke out, followed by four years of bloody fighting and the loss of 617,000 American lives.
Courtesy: Library of Congress From 1861 to 1865, the Civil War ravaged America. It still holds several notorious records, such as the highest number of average deaths per day (504). Read more of ...
Fascinating maps ... Civil War began to appear inevitable. It was an early version of the data maps so popular on the internet today and showed the exact percentage of enslaved people in each ...
The year: 1861 ... America, and so far were able to fight the Union Army. One solution: Balloons. Yes, balloons. And bizarrely, it was tried and kind of worked. Back in the American Civil War ...