South Carolina. 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 ...

He had experience in Congress as both a representative and senator, and had been secretary of war under President Franklin ...

More from Wes about the causes of the Civil War. What led to ... territorial expansion. The South wished to take slavery into the western territories, while the North was committed to keeping ...

The Civil War was a military ... extended from the East Coast to the pioneer West between the North and the South. It was a battle of ideology rooted in the founding of the nation, in which states’ ...

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For decades, the cremated remains on more than two dozen American Civil War veterans languished in storage facilities ...

In light of yet another volatile presidential election cycle, compounded by the images of those who charged the United States ...

Former President Trump said he believed the Civil War could have ... in the years before the war to try to reach a compromise to satisfy the North and the South. But Lincoln’s election in ...

The simple copper and cardboard urns gathering dust on shelves only had the name of each of the 28 soldiers — but nothing ...

Settled by the English in 1670, the colony named for King Charles I was split into North ... the Civil War – the bloodiest four years in American history. The Civil War devastated South Carolina ...

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Copyright 2024 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Updated [hour]:[minute] [AMPM] [timezone], [monthFull] [day], [year] BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — A North Dakota ...