This section displays objects that were used as flags during the Civil War. National Museum of American History Old Glory flag National Museum of American History United States National 34-Star Flag ...

On November 6, 1860 Abraham Lincoln was elected President of the United States ... the fire. The Civil War had begun. Immediately following the attack, four more states -- Virginia, Arkansas ...

History 218—The Road to the United States Civil War starts in the 1780s, after the Continental Army’s defeat of British forces at Yorktown in 1781 and the 1783 signing of the Treaty of Paris to ...