In the South, most slaves did not hear of the proclamation for months. But the purpose of the Civil War had now changed. The North was not only fighting to preserve the Union, it was fighting to ...

In 1860, Fort Sumter, the federal sea fortress guarding Charleston, became a flash point in the tensions between North and South ... first shots fired in the Civil War. Larson calls it "the ...

Civil War rifles were accurate for hundreds of yards, with some being deadly at up to 1,000 yards. ( These are the 14 guns that helped fight the Revolutionary War .) ...

South Carolina. On April 12, Lincoln ordered a fleet to resupply Fort Sumter, and the first shots of the Civil War were fired. North Carolina, Virginia, Arkansas and Tennessee then joined the ...

"The cause of the Civil War was slavery." She said that when trying to understand "why" the North and South went to battle, slavery is the core issue. The issues of state and federal power that ...

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 ...

As Rhett Butler pointed out in "Gone with the Wind," there were just some things the South lacked during the Civil War era that the North had in massive amounts — and it just so happened that ...

In South Carolina, where the first shots of the Civil War were fired ... that took months and years to come to a head as the North and South split over the righteousness of enslaved people.

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