A long-lost Confederate flag, captured at the Battle of Gettysburg and among the rarest Civil War artifacts, will be a top ...

Read more of the shocking statistics from the War that divided our nation. 4:1 — The ratio of people who attended church weekly to those who voted in the 1860 ... of Civil War Union corpses ...

On November 6, 1860 ... The Civil War had begun. Immediately following the attack, four more states -- Virginia, Arkansas, North Carolina, and Tennessee -- severed their ties with the Union.