The year: 1861. The problem: Pro-slavery states had broken away from the Union, rising up in armed revolt as the treasonous ...

Demonstrations and programs throughout the day will highlight military and civilian life during the Civil War, with a special ...

Ten months into the Civil ... of the war. Though coffee was cultivated around the world from Java to Ethiopia to Haiti, Brazil had been the main supplier to the United States. The Union blockade ...

FAIRMONT — On April 29, 1863, 300 Union soldiers watched as 2,500 Confederate cavalry men descended on Fairmont. The Confederacy forced the Union to retreat, but not before Union soldiers killed 50 to ...

In the village of Appomattox Court House, Virginia, on April 9, 1865, Robert E. Lee surrenders his 28,000 Confederate troops ...

Attendees of the sold-out March 8 Springfield Civil War Symposium had gained a full ... underbrush would render the horses of the Union cavalry useless and frustrate its artillery for the most ...

(WMBD) — Civil War veteran Pvt ... Clark enlisted at 19 in the Union Army’s 14th Illinois Cavalry regiment, working as a horse soldier. He died in 1919 on the first Armistice Day, now known ...