The Civil War must have been a confusing time for Native Americans. Pushed from the east and relegated to Indian Territory, the group known as the Five Civilized Tribes were pressured from both ...

The Civil War was one of the darkest periods in American history. ... The first shots of the Civil War were fired on April 12, 1861, ... Did the Civil War have any impact on Native Americans? ...

A descendant of Dakota and French Canadians, Hercules LaChapelle was 30 and working as a raftsman on the Mississippi River near his Wabasha farm when the Civil War broke out in 1861. He joined 50 ...

Between 1861 and 1865, the Union, or northern states, and the Confederacy, or southern states, fought each other in the American Civil War. A major dispute over slavery was the primary cause of ...

A brief overview of the American Civil War The American Civil War, fought from 1861 to 1865, was a conflict between the Northern states (the Union) and the Southern states that seceded to form the ...

A proposal advancing in Lansing would rename a stretch of scenic M-22 after a Michigan company of Native American soldiers who fought in the Civil War. After unanimously passing the Senate earlier ...

More than two decades have passed since historian Jay Winik wrote about the end of the Civil War with a book with “April 1865: The Month That Saved America.” His latest book covers the period ...