Kings and Generals' animated historical documentary series on early modern history and the United States continues with a new series on the Civil War ... Fort Sumter and Bull Run.

The year: 1861. The problem: Pro-slavery states had broken away from the Union, rising up in armed revolt as the treasonous ...

Keywords Civil War, Abraham Lincoln, secession, Confederacy, Fort Sumter, First Battle of Bull Run, Emancipation Proclamation, military strategy, Union, Confederate States, African Americans, war ...

At the time of the Civil War, camera shutters were too slow ... On July 21, 1861, he traveled to the Bull Run battlefield in the photographic wagon owned and driven by his friend Mathew Brady.

"Incidents of the war: A harvest of death ... number of battlefield deaths in 12 hours at the Battle of Bull Run 3,000 — Estimated number of horses killed at the Battle of Gettysburg ...

"Incidents of the war: A harvest of death ... number of battlefield deaths in 12 hours at the Battle of Bull Run 3,000 — Estimated number of horses killed at the Battle of Gettysburg ...