FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) — Nearly 180,000 African American men fought for the Union in the Civil War. A new exhibit called ...
Lincoln's statement, however, did not satisfy the Confederacy, and on April 12 they attacked Fort Sumter ... Federal troops returned the fire. The Civil War had begun. Immediately following ...
And the work he has given us is not only a biography of Lincoln and a history of the Civil War. It is itself a battlefield, a sprawling panorama of people and issues and conflicts held together ...
On April 12, 1861, barely a month after Lincoln took office, Confederate forces fired on Union troops at Fort Sumter, South Carolina, and the Civil War began. Lincoln acted swiftly, wielding more ...
Grant and President Abraham Lincoln. Thomas cited the cold ... largest inland stone fortification built during the Civil War. Although the fort did not play a leading role in the battle ...
Author Erik Larson, one of the most popular authors of non-fiction history, joins us to discuss his new book The Demon of ...
A fracture point was reached in 1860 when Abraham Lincoln, an opponent of slavery ... With the 160th anniversary of the Civil War's conclusion coming up in 2025 and some saying the U.S. could be on ...
War broke out in April 1861 with the attempt by the Federal government to resupply South Carolina’s Fort Sumter ... constitutionally and politically, Lincoln had to grapple with the evolving meaning ...