Half a century before she founded the American Red Cross, Clara Barton had her ... The week after the Civil War broke out in April 1861, Barton began nursing Union soldiers at an improvised ...

By Katharine Q. Seelye In “Every Drop of Blood,” Edward Achorn addresses sweeping issues about the Civil War and the precarious state of America through the president’s 1865 inaugural speech.

The Department of Civil, Environmental and Sustainable Engineering offers graduate programs in the areas of structural engineering, general civil engineering, and construction management. The focus of ...

The Civil War began at 4:30 am on April 12, 1861 at Ft. Sumter, Charleston, SC. Confederate gunners fired on Ft. Sumter in Charleston, SC on April 12, 1861. Ft. Sumter fell 34 hours later.