Everyone except Navy Secretary Gideon Welles. He knew the Union had its own armored warship and it was already on its way to take out the CSS Virginia. When the Civil War started, the Confederate ...

In April 1861, just three days after the Confederate attack on Fort Sumter, President Abraham Lincoln called for 75,000 volunteers to fill the ranks of the Union ... the Civil War, watched the ...

Pillow, Tennessee on April 12, 1864 100,000+ — Number of Civil War Union corpses found in the South through a federal reinterment program from 1866-1869 303,356 — Number of Union soldiers who ...

Early Life and Enslavement: Robert Smalls was born in 1839 in Beaufort, South Carolina, into slavery. His mother, who was ...

In a traditional service offered to Civil War veterans, the historical 4th U.S. Infantry Regiment dressed in Union uniforms ...

Andrew Sillen announces the contradiction in this volume — "Kidnapped at Sea: The Civil War Voyage of David Henry White" — from ... capturing and burning dozens of Union merchant vessels, including ...

Christopher George uncovered a late 19th-century Civil War presentation sword in the attic of his historic family home, ...