The American Civil War was by far the deadliest conflict in U.S. history. From the start of the war in April 1861, with the Confederate attack on Fort Sumter, until General Robert E. Lee’s ...

Civil War at 150: How a Bloodless Battle Started It All. A mule was its only fatality, but the Battle of Fort Sumter nevertheless led to the United States' deadliest war, as historian Mark Jenkins ...

The opening gunfire of the Civil War—the first shots exchanged in anger between the United States and the Confederate States—then fell silent. ( Interactive Map: Battlefields of the Civil War.

Complete accounts of all the state units that served in the war are searchable by county along with 1860 United States Census data. The Tennessee Civil War GIS Survey is a project of the Tennessee ...

A short History Clip of how the Ironclad ships were used during the Civil War. And the battle between the Css Virginia and the USS Monitor. The Civil War history runs deep in Virginia!

To identify the states with the most Civil War battles, 24/7 Wall St. reviewed data from the National Archives Catalog from the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration.