The year: 1861. The problem: Pro-slavery states had broken away from the Union, rising up in armed revolt as the treasonous ...

Black sailors were therefore accepted into the U.S. Navy from the ... But the purpose of the Civil War had now changed. The North was not only fighting to preserve the Union, it was fighting ...

After the Civil War ... served as an admiral in the Confederate navy. The presence, after the war, of a free, black settlement, named for the hated Union, made a dramatic claim to equality ...

Ten months into the Civil War, the Union was short on a crucial supply, the absence of which threatened to sap the fighting strength of the Northern army: coffee. This critical source of energy ...

Women veterans from the Civil War ... Cemetery's Civil War women has been syndicated elsewhere and can still be found on the Internet Archive Wayback Machine. Navy Cmdr. B.J. Farrell, commanding ...

In late May, the million-man Union Army began demobilization after parading for two days down Pennsylvania Avenue. An estimated 750,000 Americans died in the Civil War from battle wounds and ...

Everyone except Navy Secretary Gideon Welles. He knew the Union had its own armored warship and it was already on its way to take out the CSS Virginia. When the Civil War started, the Confederate ...

He posed that question to former Navy SEAL Ray Mendoza, who served in Iraq and had in recent years built a second career in ...

Learn about hidden gems contained in the latest volume of the N.C. Roster Series covering the Confederate States Navy during ...