The Civil War had begun. Immediately following the ... His words were not simply aimed at the loyal southern states, however -- most white northerners were not interested in fighting to free ...

Robert E. Lee surrendered at Appomattox Court House on April 9, 1865. Elsewhere in the country, parts of the rebel army ...

More from Wes about the causes of the Civil War. What led to the outbreak ... A key issue was states' rights. The Southern states wanted to assert their authority over the federal government ...

The fighting of the American Civil War ultimately reached nearly every state in the Northern and Southern territories, with ...

In some states, Grant deployed troops to maintain order and guarantee that African Americans and their Republican allies ...

The South did not want Lincoln to be the President. At a meeting in the town of Montgomery, Alabama they formed a new government called the Confederate States of America.

And the Civil War is the conflict that keeps on teaching ... Abraham Lincoln wanted to “let them (the defeated Southern states) up easy” but as Vorenberg shows in great detail, enough unrepentant ...

In 1865, the Civil War in America ended. The northern states had defeated the southern states. The years immediately after the war were known as the Reconstruction era. The Government changed the ...