By Febrary 1, 1861 ... The Civil War had begun. Immediately following the attack, four more states -- Virginia, Arkansas, North Carolina, and Tennessee -- severed their ties with the Union.

Although you may have heard of the famously devalued Confederate paper currency, the American Civil ... the war intervened before they could move forward when New Orleans fell to the Union ...

The year: 1861 ... were able to fight the Union Army. One solution: Balloons. Yes, balloons. And bizarrely, it was tried and kind of worked. Back in the American Civil War, the American military ...