Historian Jay Winik writes about the leadup to the outbreak of the Civil War in “1861: The Lost Peace.” The' Andrew DeMillo ...

About the only thing the North and South agreed on was that neither wanted to start the American Civil War. If President Abraham ... under command of U.S. Maj. Robert Anderson, were in an ...

Fire ultimately forced Major Anderson to surrender. Remarkably, no one died in the bombardment. But 750,000 Americans would be killed before the Civil War ended in 1865. Four years to the day ...

The issue of slavery divided the United States long before the election of Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War. After the Kansas ... Columbus, Anderson and Palmito Ranch, as well as numerous naval ...