In the thirty years leading up to the Civil War, tensions in the country mounted over the issue of slavery. By 1830, there were more than 2 million slaves in the United States, worth over a ...
A Civil War map in the National Archives in College Park, Maryland reads, “S. E. Missouri, Country Around Ironton” on its ...
On November 6, 1860 Abraham Lincoln was elected President of the United States -- an event ... 1865, the Civil War ended with the surrender of the Confederate army. 617,000 Americans had died ...