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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...