We are listing the American Civil War first for comparison. The others are in order by the lower-end estimated number of casualties. Years: 1861-1865 Estimated Death Toll: 620,000 – 750,000 Issues: ...

At the National Civil War Naval Museum in Columbus, Georgia, we got the rare chance to fire an original Brooke rifled naval cannon built in 1865. Designed near the end of the Civil War, this massive ...

The CSS “Shenandoah” only learned of the Confederacy’s defeat in the summer of 1865. That June, the cruiser’s crew sank 24 American merchant vessels, unaware that the conflict had already ended ...

Introduction -- Part I. The postwar period. A fractured country and its fractured memories -- The resurgent south and its lost cause -- Remembering the victors' war in the Gilded Age -- The rocky road ...

The Boone Town Council approved the final design proof for a Civil War Trails interpretive panel marking the events of Stoneman’s Raid in Boone and discussed whether to ...

From a U.S. perspective, the 1860s were largely defined by the Civil War, the height and demise of Abraham Lincoln, and the abolishment of slavery. Around the globe, poverty was prevalent, Japan rose ...

Prologue: the view from Atlanta, 1895 -- The Northern postwar vision, 1865-1867 -- The mixed blessing of universal suffrage, 1867-1870 -- Black workers and the South Carolina government, 1871-1875 -- ...

The recently returned men of the 95th Ohio Volunteer Infantry remembered — at a lavish banquet on Aug. 17, 1865 — a fellow Union soldier who had fallen during the Civil War. The Ohio State Journal ...

What was hygiene like during the Civil War? By contemporary standards, it was pretty grim for both Union and Confederate troops. Confronted by unsanitary living conditions and the ever-present risk of ...

These Pennsylvanians played important roles in Civil War battles and in events surrounding the Civil War.- Levi Bird DuffLevi Bird Duff hated slavery so much, it cost him a leg ...