Before Lincoln turned the idea of “the Union” into a cause worth dying for, he tried other means of ending slavery in America ...

For this reason, the government turned away African American voluteers who ... But the purpose of the Civil War had now changed. The North was not only fighting to preserve the Union, it was ...

The year: 1861. The problem: Pro-slavery states had broken away from the Union, rising up in armed revolt as the treasonous ...

With Decade of Disunion: How Massachusetts and South Carolina Led the Way to Civil War, 1849-1861, author and former editor of The American Conservative ... in the north and replaced by growing ...

The American Civil War is no exception, since there was no convenient peace ... but another major Confederate field army was still at large in North Carolina and wouldn’t disband until April 26. An ...