The Civil War was a military ... in which states’ rights and the institution of slavery were points of extreme contention. The Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which abolished slavery, ...

On November 6, 1860 Abraham Lincoln was elected President of the United States -- an event that outraged southern states. The Republican party had run on an anti-slavery platform, and many ...

If there is one general that could be ... he gave the Union some of its most storied actions of the battle and the entire Civil War. The bayonet charge of the 20th Maine wiped up two rebel ...

Several NGOs, including Human Rights Watch, have documented evidence of numerous mass atrocities committed throughout the conflict, prompting accusations of ethnic cleansing and war crimes.