William Harvey Carney, born in slavery, was the hero of the Battle of Battery Wagner, fought in South Carolina in 1863.

"First Hand," an exhibition of more than 140 original Civil War-era drawings on view at Reed ... "Charge of Fremont's Bodyguard at Springfield, Missouri," October 25, 1861, graphite and ink on ...

The world came to understand the Civil War through the eyes of battlefield artists. Living alongside the troops, combat illustrators risked death, injury, and disease to convey the blow-by-blow of ...

The Civil War (1861-1865) is America’s bloodiest war to date. It cost close to 1,100,000 casualties and claimed over 620,000 lives. ... and survey slave art and culture.

In 1861 and the years that followed, many American men found themselves far from home. ... Civil War Battlefield Art. HISTORY & CULTURE. When a people's stories are at risk, ...

In his marvelous new book, 1861: The Civil War Awakening, Adam Goodheart tries to capture what it felt like to live through secession and the opening months of the Civil War, at a time when it ...

When they emerge from their books and battlefields, the scholars and historians specializing in the original Civil War, from 1861-65, rarely believe that sort of starkly regional conflict would ...

Lincoln and Civil War scholars debated why the Civil War didn't end in 1861, the year that it began. They discussed why the numerous advantages of the Union did not bring the war to a swift ...

Springfield & The Civil War We at The Republican are launching a four-year project to tell the story of how our community coped with 48 months of war, from April of 1861 to April of 1865.

Peter Carmichael gave an overview of the Civil War in 1861. He touched on the social, political and military components that led to the start of the war. He encouraged scholars to help develop a ...