More from Wes about the causes of the Civil War. What led to the outbreak of the bloodiest conflict in the history of North ... they turned to the only alternative they believed was left to ...

The year: 1861. The problem: Pro-slavery states had broken away from the Union, rising up in armed revolt as the treasonous ...

A look at the people and events that shaped the Civil War and Reconstruction. Covering American History C-SPAN style: with event coverage, eyewitness accounts, and discussions with authors ...

At the time of the Civil ... the war totaled approximately 80,000 cases for the Union and 54,000 for the Confederates. It was apparently safe, with few deaths. The Medical and Surgical History ...

The Civil War was a military, cultural, political, and economic milestone in American history. For four years the nation was in a bloody divide that extended from the East Coast to the pioneer West ...

Freeman, Yale professor of history and American studies ... and editor who worked in Washington in the lead up to the Civil War. During his four decades in the nation’s capital, he crossed ...

Ten months into the Civil War, the Union was short ... was forever changed by the war. Indeed, Smithsonian curator of political history Jon Grinspan says that drinking coffee three times a day ...