"Incidents of the war ... Office from 1865-1868 4 million — Number of enslaved persons in the U.S. in 1860 180,000 — Number of African American soldiers that served in the Civil War 1 in ...

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

Abraham Lincoln wanted peace, for the war to end. He expressed his desire to "bind up the nation's wounds" in his second ...