Trace the real causes of the American Civil War in this first part of a detailed historical series, covering the key events and tensions from 1819 to 1861. Uncover how decades of political conflict, ...

Most folks will tell you the Civil War began April 12, 1861, with the first shots fired on Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbor. Many historians, however, say the war actually began 164 years ago this ...

Marche says that when the first civil war happened in the 1860s, very few people in America saw it coming – even when the first battle began, at Fort Sumter, near Charleston, South Carolina.

April 12, 1861: Fort Sumter bombarded, Civil War begins Then on July 21, 1861, green, undertrained, inexperienced Union troops marched out from Washington D.C. ...

Patrick Saylor, with the American Civil War Museum, talks about the new 29,000-square-foot building that will enclose existing walls, background, that date to pre-Civil War at Historic Tredegar in ...