Uniforms are used for identification as well as to provide a sense of unity during any conflict, and the American Civil War (1861-1865) was no exception. At their most basic level, Civil War uniforms ...

In the Civil War South, joining the Confederate army was ... Universally, young white men in the Confederacy were anxious to don uniforms, drill in the streets, march to war, and claim adult ...

Indeed, after he became alarmed about Federal threats to the lower South ... the Civil War. "I would have trusted him with anything," said Benjamin Yancey, Jr. (left, in his Confederate uniform ...

Engineer Eli Whitney died 35 years before the Civil War ... economic stage for war. Whitney's gin made cotton production far more efficient, fueling the need for more southern slaves and enriching ...

The story of the Civil War is all about division within one’s own country. But the schisms ran deeper than just North against South—there were also cracks within the Union itself, even after ...

The volunteers, named after a real historical unit, taught students about weapons, uniforms, equipment, and jobs during the ...