The American Civil War was by far the deadliest conflict in U.S. history. From the start of the war in April 1861, with the Confederate attack on Fort Sumter, until General Robert E. Lee’s ...

The Battle of Gettysburg, fought 150 years ago this week, is often considered a turning point in the Civil War, the battle that halted the Confederates’ invasion of the North and eventually led ...

The carnage of the Battle of Antietam, the bloodiest one-day battle of the Civil War, near Sharpsburg, Md., was captured in this Sept. 17, 1862, photograph. (Mathew B. Brady file ) Spanish ...

The Battle of Gettysburg, fought 150 years ago this week, is often considered a turning point in the Civil War, the battle that halted the Confederates’ invasion of the North and eventually led ...

The Civil War was the bloodiest and most destructive conflict in American history. From the beginning of the war in April 1861 to the end in April 1865, over 620,000 people were killed, about ...