Civil Wars Videos

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.

Rasputin liked to drink alcohol and misbehave with women.

After the Tsar abdicates, he is treated without dignity by soldiers who swarm the imperial palace.

It is July 16, 1918.

About 600 civil-rights marchersmade their way across Route 80, in Selma, on the 7th of March, 1965.

When William T. Sherman, one of the Union's leading generals, led his troops on a mission now known as "Sherman's March to the Sea," his primary objec...

For a successful March to the Sea, General Sherman's plans had to remain secret.

Leaving Savannah, Sherman's troops continued to cover about ten miles a day.

As General Sherman and his troops approached Fort McAllister, near Savannah, they encountered a new Confederate weapon - land mines - which proved to ...

During the summer of 1864, Union engineers from Pennsylvania (with mining experience in their own state) dug a tunnel under Confederate lines at Peter...

After the first day of Stonewall Jackson's attack at Chancellorsville, the General and some of his staff ventured beyond their own lines to plan for t...

Before the Civil War erupted, Thomas Jonathon Jackson was a professor at VMI (Virginia Military Institute).

Mary Surratt - accused of being a conspirator in the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln - was tried before a military tribunal, instead of a j...

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