Recently a batch of rare Civil War maps were released by the Library of Congress, ... Even still, early Texans were headstrong and in Feb. 1861 voted to quit the Union, the seventh state to do so.

April 1865 was a momentous month in American history. On April 9, the Confederate army under Robert E. Lee surrendered to the Union forces of Ulysses S. Grant, effectively ending the Civil War ...

A newly discovered 150-year-old map of the Civil War’s Battle of Antietam shows thousands of graves of Union and Confederate soldiers killed near Sharpsburg, Md., in 1862.

High Water Mark memorial at Cemetery Ridge at the Gettysburg Battlefield. Photo by Robert Swanson via Wikimedia Civil War Memorials For the full interactive version of this map, access this page ...