By Febrary 1, 1861, six more states -- Mississippi ... than 186,000 black soldiers had joined the Union army; 93,000 from the Confederate states, 40,000 from the border slave states, and 53,000 ...

Strategically, the Eastern Theater was arguably the most important battleground of the Civil War; comprising the states ... 1861 to 1865, the Army of Northern Virginia fought in dozens of major ...

The United States was deeply divided in 1861, as political tensions had been escalating for years. By the end of 1860, issues of slavery, states’ rights and congressional representation hit ...