“Fort fisher was essentially America’s largest sand castle ever built,” Steele said. ”Construction began around early in 1861 ...

I reckon they wont get this child to starve in their dreadful prisons. After the battle of the 8th, our army fell back to the point where we now are, and threw up breast-works; and it is well we ...

It began only months after Southern states seceded from the Union, when Southern troops attacked and captured the federally held Fort Sumter in Charleston, South Carolina. Over the next four years ...

The Civil War had begun. Immediately following the attack, four more states -- Virginia, Arkansas, North Carolina ... came after the Union victory at the Battle of Antietam in September of ...