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 ...

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.

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.

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

37 —Abraham Lincoln The Civil War was about slavery, although both sides sometimes pretended that it was not. The southern states feared that the new Republican Party, led by President Abraham ...

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

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