About the Archive This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of online publication ... have regarded the civil war now raging in the United ...

When they emerge from their books and battlefields, the scholars and historians specializing in the original Civil War, from 1861-65, rarely believe that sort of starkly regional conflict would ...

But what separates the Battle of Black Jack from others is it was the first armed skirmish between pro- and anti-slavery forces and lit the fuse on what would become the Civil War. Much has been ...

Victorian America and the Civil War examines the relationships between American Victorian culture and the Civil War. The author argues that at the heart of American Victorian culture was Romanticism, ...

James S. Anderson wrote home from the front lines of the Civil War while in Brandy Station, Virginia, on April 4, 1864.

One of the major accomplishments during the Civil War was the establishment ... At the first major land battle of the war on July 16, 1861 in Virginia at Manassas (Bull Run), two unproven green ...

The American Civil War was a defining chapter in the country's history. From the opening shots at Fort Sumter in 1861 to the surrender ... Tourist Destinations Start your trip to Harpers Ferry ...

When Confederate troops began bombarding Fort Sumter on April 12, 1861, Americans knew immediately that, as the New York Herald put it the next day, “civil war [had] at last begun.” ...

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It was June 1861 when the first group of volunteers left Manitowoc for the Civil War. Among them was 19-year ... high in the profession if I once had a start. What on earth possessed old Sharp ...

There were about 55,000 physicians in the United States at the start of the Civil War; most were poorly trained ... Although by 1861 this therapeutic method was in decline; dosing with powerful ...