Prologue : a banner at daybreak : Charleston Harbor, December 1860 -- Wide awake : Boston, October 1860 -- The old gentlemen : Washington, January 1861 -- Forces of nature : central Ohio, February ...

The Confederacy’s theory of victory at the start of the Civil War was straightforward — so logical, the historian Emory M.

"While in the short term--militarily--the North won the Civil War, in the long term--ideologically--victory went to the South. The continual expansion of the Western frontier allowed a Southern ...

The American Civil War was fought between 1861 and 1865, but its true cause remains the subject of debate. Beyond battles and politics, the central issue was slavery and its expansion into new ...