On November 6, 1860 Abraham Lincoln was elected President of the United States -- an event that outraged southern states. The Republican party had run on an anti-slavery platform, and many ...

A long-lost Confederate flag, captured at the Battle of Gettysburg and among the rarest Civil War artifacts, will be a top ...

Two years into the Civil War ... Union casualties were high. But after the Federals surrendered, Forrest's men shot and killed a number of unarmed soldiers and officers, both black and white.

The Defense Department (DoD) efforts to purge civil rights figures from its website led to the deletion of a page about Black Civil War hero ... the flag and continued leading Union troops toward ...