Historian Jay Winik writes about the leadup to the outbreak of the Civil War in “1861: The Lost Peace.” The' Andrew DeMillo ...

He is now an avid collector and local Civil War historian, in addition to being ... Chronologically, the book is starting in 1861, and moving forward to the First Manassas battle, the Winter ...

Throughout 2025, the Herald-Leader will showcase Lexington’s 250-year history, such as the Lexington Rifles, a Civil War militia that was formed in 1857.

Decade of Disunion: How Massachusetts and South Carolina Led the Way to Civil War, 1849-1861, by Robert W ... responded by raising money to send rifles to Kansas (along with real settlers ...

The image was taken around 1861 by an unknown portraitist in the New York studio of Mathew Brady, the photographer who would become indelibly associated with Civil War images. The photograph is a ...

Deep inside Smallin Civil War Cave, Rick Mansfield stood next ... south of modern-day Springfield. There, a pioneer family agreed to guide him north toward the James River and Pearson Creek ...

The year: 1861. The problem: Pro-slavery states had ... Back in the American Civil War, the American military founded its first aerial force, the Union Army Balloon Corps. Thank Union desperation ...

In the years leading up to the Civil War Meigs also supervised ... or purchase of the standardized 1861 Springfield in .58 caliber or the 1858 Enfield rifle in .577 caliber were adopted.

In a traditional service offered to Civil War veterans, the historical 4th U.S. Infantry Regiment dressed in Union uniforms fired musket volleys ... lessons about the 1861-1865 war to preserve ...

“We are now on the brink,” Dalio said, noting that a modern civil war—though it might not involve muskets—would see ... “It’s not 1861,” Bounds, the sociology professor, said.

The Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum introduced a new item dating back to the Civil War on April 30 ... signed the document on April 19, 1861, to blockade the southern states ...

shows a document signed by President Lincoln in April 1861 ordering the blockade of southern United States ports after the Confederate attack on Fort Sumter started the Civil War. Abraham Lincoln ...