When Americans disagreed on the power of individual states to control their respective governments and institutions, they fought a war, between themselves, during 1861 to 1865. Other countries have also fought "civil wars." These stories focus on those people, places and events.
Bookcover image of Hunter Holmes McGuire: Stonewall Jackson's Doctor, by John W. Schildt.
This map of Ireland depicts its political and geographical borders from "The Pale" (of 1515) until partition (between the Irish Republic and Northern ...
During his trial, in the summer of 1867, John Surratt produced witnesses who swore he was in Elmira, New York the day after Lincoln's shooting. ...
Bookcover image of In the Hands of Providence: Joshua L. Chamberlain and the American Civil War, by Alice Rains Trulock.
Stonewall Jackson's wife, Mary Anna (whom he affectionately called "Esposito"), sent him this letter sometime in April of 1863: My precious husband...
Mary Todd Lincoln's letter to her husband, the President, notes discussions in Washington D.C. regarding the slow reactions of General McClellan. ...
Mary Todd Lincoln wrote a letter to her husband, the President, advising him to replace General McClellan. Click on the image to enlarge it.
This image depicts the letter which Sandie Pendleton wrote to his father after the death of General Stonewall Jackson. Click on the image for a bette...
This is a facsimile of the document for prisoners of war who agreed to no longer fight against the North. Click on the image to enlarge it. &nb...
This is a facsimile of the Amnesty Oath signed by Robert E. Lee, swearing loyalty to the United States.
Resignation of Robert E. Lee in which he left the United States Army in favor of supporting his state of Virginia in the American Civil War.
The follow excerpts from John Brown's Body—a 15,000-line epic Civil-War poem by Stephen Vincent Benet, published in 1928—tell the story of...
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