The South did not want Lincoln to be the President. At a meeting in the town of Montgomery, Alabama they formed a new government called the Confederate States of America.

More from Wes about the causes of the Civil War. What led to the outbreak ... A key issue was states' rights. The Southern states wanted to assert their authority over the federal government ...

The Civil War had begun. Immediately following the ... His words were not simply aimed at the loyal southern states, however -- most white northerners were not interested in fighting to free ...

New Civil War research armed with more data gives the fullest picture yet of not just the overall death toll but its disproportionate impact on the South, including Georgia.

Life in the Southern plantations was often terrible. The treatment of enslaved people could be very harsh.

For 250 years, the US Army has adapted as a living organization composed of operating units and institutional organizations ...

Even the classic Civil War-set movie "Gone with the ... produced on plantations across the southern states. During the war, blockade-running vessels carried arms across the Atlantic from Liverpool.

Across a wide range of issues, President Donald Trump is seeking to impose the restrictive social agenda that has spread ...

Alfonso Domingo, co-director of the documentary “Invisible Heroes: African-Americans in the Spanish Civil War ... and the United States. Like thousands of people of the southern United ...

The brief experiment with a department of education was born in 1867 and enacted by Southern Democrat President Andrew Johnson.