Federal troops returned the fire. The Civil War had begun. Immediately following the attack, four more states -- Virginia, Arkansas, North Carolina, and Tennessee -- severed their ties with the Union.
This war was waged between the North – the Union – and the ... Dyer, to identify the U.S. states with the highest Civil War casualties. When Fox and Dyer began their research, many records ...
The Civil War was a military, cultural, political, and economic milestone in American history. For four years the nation was in a bloody divide that extended from the East Coast to the pioneer West ...
What led to the outbreak of the bloodiest conflict in the history of North America? A common explanation is that the Civil War was fought ... A key issue was states' rights. The Southern states ...