Most say the Civil War began April 12, 1861, with the first shots fired on Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbor. But many ...

Confederate Texans and indigenous peoples during the American Civil War. In the summer of 1861, Confederate troops invaded New Mexico from Texas, hoping to conquer that territory and then launch a ...

This number is larger than the deaths of American soldiers from both World War I and World War II combined. The first shots of the Civil War were fired on April 12, 1861, when Confederate forces ...

One of the other interesting accounts of the war was recorded in 1906 by William H. Gregg, an officer who served under Confederate guerrilla William Clarke Quantrill from 1861-1864.

A rare memoir of a Civil War veteran from Mooresburg has recently been found and published, offering more details about the ...

Happy birthday, New Mexico! Today, the Land of Enchantment is celebrating its 113th anniversary of statehood. With a rich ...

Dread Danger creates a fuller understanding of the soldier experience and the overall costs and sufferings of war. 'Despite a rich literature on US Civil War soldier motivation, surprisingly few ...

On November 6, 1860 Abraham Lincoln was elected President of the United States -- an event that outraged ... Federal troops returned the fire. The Civil War had begun. Immediately following ...

The US president-elect said the war in Ukraine had "to stop", but he did not give a direct answer when asked whether he ...

Mississippi seceded from the Union in 1861 and suffered greatly during the American Civil War. Despite the abolition of slavery, racial discrimination endured in Mississippi, and the state was a ...