Most say the Civil War began April 12, 1861, with the first shots fired on Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbor. But many ...

The Civil War had begun. Immediately following the attack ... Finally, on August 6, 1861, fugitive slaves were declared to be "contraband of war" if their labor had been used to aid the ...

Hear about the Union and Confederate forces' race to Washington DC in April 1861. In April 1861, as Union forces retreated north, having lost the first battle of the Civil War, attention turned to the ...

The American Civil War began in 1861, a battle fought between the Union (North) and the Confederacy (South), that was waged for four years. What began as a battle for reunification on the part of ...

The first shots of the Civil War were fired on April 12, 1861, when Confederate forces fired on a Union army camp at Fort Sumter in South Carolina. The war officially ended on April 9, 1865 ...

37 —Abraham Lincoln The Civil War was about slavery ... Abraham Lincoln, First Inaugural Address, Mar. 4, 1861. 41. Abraham Lincoln, Letter to Horace Greeley, Aug. 22, 1862.