Oct 16, 2017 Oct 16, 2017 Updated Oct 16, 2017 Sixteen years and more than $3 million in taxpayer dollars later, a hidden collection of Civil War-era memorabilia largely sits stacked in boxes on ...

For many Americans, both civilian and military, who lived through the conflict, the Civil War was the monumental event of their lifetime. They collected relics as they adjusted to the immediate ...

"Incidents of the war: A harvest of death." The three days of conflict at Gettysburg resulted in 51,000 casualties, making it the bloodiest battle of the Civil War. Courtesy: Library of Congress ...

More from Wes about the causes of the Civil War. What led to the outbreak of the bloodiest conflict in the history of North America? A common explanation is that the Civil War was fought over the ...