Misconception: Lincoln’s policies enjoyed widespread support in the North. The story of the Civil ... when Davis had his doubts about secession, his mind was entirely made up about the war ...

Alexander Gardner/Library of Congress When the American Civil War began, president Abraham Lincoln was far less ... Jefferson Davis had graduated from West Point (in the lowest third of his ...

On November 6, 1860 Abraham Lincoln was elected President of the ... Federal troops returned the fire. The Civil War had begun. Immediately following the attack, four more states -- Virginia ...

Nigel Hamilton is one of America’s least conventional and most interesting historians. His landmark, three-volume study of ...

When a sheriff hasn’t read his own mailers Hudson County Sheriff Frank Schillari admitted to the New Jersey Globe that he ...

Of all wars, none are quite so catastrophic as civil wars. They arise from the ugliest of disagreements, they spill into the most reprehensible of behaviors, and they seem never to have a distinct ...

During Smalls’ first meeting with Lincoln, he urged the president to allow Black men to join the Union Army. Since the beginning of the Civil War, Lincoln had rejected Black volunteers ...

That leaves our Green Gallery which holds “Now He Belongs to the Ages: The Lincoln Portrait, Matthew Brady, Benjamin Loring, Tioga County and the Civil War.” This is the exhibit that I have ...

Lincoln became the Civil War’s final casualty when an actor and ... Army officers and the president who prevailed over Jefferson Davis and Robert E. Lee. (The storied general surrendered a ...