From the start of the war in April 1861, with the Confederate attack on Fort Sumter, until General Robert E. Lee’s surrender at Appomattox four years later, over 620,000 people were killed ...

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.

Following the recent four-day war, 32 airports in northern India were shut down temporarily, and schools in some of the border districts of Rajasthan and Punjab were shut as a precautionary action.

4. Misconception: All amputations were done without anesthesia. Plenty of Civil War movies show screaming soldiers having their mangled limbs amputated with hacksaws in a medical tent while wide ...

South Dakota’s governor says we would “have a war on our hands” if Biden were to federalize National Guard troops being deployed to the border. Kristi Noem Warns of Possible Civil War Amid ...

Battle of Shiloh, April 6, 1862, United States of America, American Civil War, coloured engraving, 19th century. More than 100,000 troops fought at Shiloh between April 6-7, 1862, and some 23,000 ...

Over 150 years later, the Civil War continues to fascinate readers with a taste for historic minutiae. Stacker compiled a timeline of the war using various historical and academic sources.

Today, some worry that the red-blue divisions in the U.S. are so deep that we could see another civil war. But here’s why we won’t: federalism, aka states’ rights.

The Civil War was the bloodiest and most destructive conflict in American history. From the beginning of the war in April 1861 to the end in April 1865, over 620,000 people were killed, about ...