The Civil War was one of the darkest periods in American history. Tensions between the Northern and Southern states led to an all-out war. The Northern states were better supplied and equipped ...
But for those wars fought on American soil, nothing was as deadly as the American Civil War. From 1861 to 1865, the brutal internal conflict fought on U.S. land claimed the lives of almost 250,000 ...
Subjects include the Napoleonic Wars and the American Civil War The twentieth century: Extended features on the First and Second World Wars, featuring maps detailing trench warfare and aerial ...
Gary Ross’ ‘Free State of Jones’ is a dramatization of a revolt during the American Civil War, led by Newton Knight (Matthew McConaughey). He deserted his Confederate troops after the Second Battle of ...
The Civil War had begun ... black officers -- only one hundred gained commissions during the war. African American soldiers were also given substandard supplies and rations.