Federal troops returned the fire. The Civil War had begun. Immediately following the attack, four more states -- Virginia, Arkansas, North Carolina, and Tennessee -- severed their ties with the Union.

Civil War's United States has been splintered into multiple warring ... Minnesota, Montana, North Dakota, Oregon, South ...

EDENTON, N.C.—Rod Phillips and Michael Dean, a pair of white 70-something retirees, take opposing sides in the Civil War, usually between 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. on Saturdays. They are separated by a ...

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 .) ...

However, California and Texas aren't the only states to join together in Civil War. Most of the South-Eastern states have formed the "Florida Alliance," including Tennessee, Arkansas, Georgia ...

The Civil War remains one of the most important chapters in American history. But the conflict itself was more complex than North vs. South.

Maps and Brochures; Dine and Shop; ... first-hand accounts by men and women who risked their lives in underground activities for the North and the South, woven into a continuous narrative Smithsonian ...