Confederate Lieutenant Henry S. Farley pulled the trigger of a large cannon at Fort Sumter at 4:30 a.m. on April 12, 1861.

Democrats were more likely to view a civil war in the near future as possible, according to the poll.

Photographer Mathew Brady (c. 1823 –1896) may be best remembered today for his role in producing a remarkable visual record of the Civil War (1861–65). Yet he initially gained fame as a portrait ...

History Mathew Brady's Vision Mathew Brady is known for his Civil War photography and groundbreaking work in the field.

Groups like Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War worked together to research information on 15 veterans so their graves would no longer be unmarked.

Actor Alec Baldwin took to Instagram on Tuesday night to inform his followers that he believes America is in a 'pre-Civil War' environment after watching a miniseries on the Civil War.

Mathew Brady is known for his Civil War photography and groundbreaking work in the field. Read more about the Civil War at http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history ...

View CIVIL WAR. BRADY, Mathew 1822-1896, photographer, after. Albumen photograph of William T. Sherman and his generals. Washington, DC George Prince, May 1865 by Mathew Brady on artnet. Browse ...

The simple copper and cardboard urns gathering dust on shelves only had the name of each of the 28 soldiers — but nothing linking them to the Civil War.

This Female Civil War Soldier Participated in the Bloodiest Battle in American History and Spied on the South—or Did She? Historians say that Sarah Emma Edmonds exaggerated many aspects of her ...

Covering the good, the bad, and the ugly of ‘The Way We Were’, old photographs are, in a way, a form of time travel. The post ...