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 ...

After the Civil War, 18 veterans of the United States Colored ... visited Talbot County as a young woman and heard about a history that her uncle, Bernard Demczuk, who was a George Washington ...

The Civil War (1861-1865) is America’s bloodiest war to date. It cost close to 1,100,000 casualties and claimed over 620,000 lives. These lesson plans are based on History Detectives episodes ...

Women's history is just the latest casualty. Civil War Army nurse Caroline Burghardt and her gravesite in Arlington National Cemetery. (Department of Defense) A 2024 DoD News article from writer ...

The Militia Act, passed by Congress in 1862, allowed free Black men and formerly enslaved men to fight for the U.S. during the Civil War ... self -- sitting in that history class as the only ...

An example of such a post (archived) on social media was shared to X on Feb. 26, 2025, and read, in part: The Devil's Punchbowl in Natchez, Mississippi, was a Civil War-era death camp.

There are many misconceptions about Florida's history, including the state's stance on, or involvement in, the Civil War — which officially began April 12, 1861, when Confederate forces opened ...