Despite being little more than the answer to trivia questions today, Vaughn Meader was a pioneer who paved the way for ...

and Texas -- had split from the Union. The seceded states created the Confederate States of America and elected Jefferson Davis, a Mississippi Senator, as their provisional president. In his ...

In September of 1862, after the Union's victory ... granted to slaves within those states. The decree also left room for a plan of compensated emancipation. No Confederate states took the offer ...