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 ...

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 ...

What lessons can the five months leading up to the Civil War teach us about the political landscape of today? A new book delves into that short span of time between Abraham Lincoln’s election and the ...

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 ...

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 ...