President James Buchanan sent the unarmed ship Star of the West with 200 soldiers and supplies on January 9, 1861. When it ...

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 ...

The Civil War, an epic nine-episode series by the award-winning documentary filmmaker Ken Burns and produced in conjunction with WETA, Washington, D.C., first aired in September of 1990 to an ...