A timeline of the Civil War President Lincoln visits General George B. McClellan at camp. Throughout the early 1860s, the Northern and Southern states held sustained disagreements on several key ...

Trace the real causes of the American Civil War in this first part of a detailed historical series, covering the key events and tensions from 1819 to 1861. Uncover how decades of political conflict, ...

Spotlight on a letter from a young Union soldier interested in a commission with an African American regiment and a tintype of a young master and his slave, Silas Chandler, who fought together in the ...