In the South, most slaves did not hear of the proclamation for months. But the purpose of the Civil War had now changed. The North was not only fighting to preserve the Union, it was fighting to ...

Mississippi honors those who fought for the Confederacy against the United States in the Civil War. Who tried to drop the ...

More from Wes about the causes of the Civil War. What led to ... territorial expansion. The South wished to take slavery into the western territories, while the North was committed to keeping ...

The Civil War was a military, cultural, political, and economic milestone in American history. For four years the nation was in a bloody divide that extended from the East Coast to the pioneer West ...

Sherman, a West Point graduate, was superintendent of a military school in Louisiana when South Carolina ... it is conceivable that the North would not have won the Civil War and that the Union ...

Lincoln won the presidential election in November ... much was to happen and tensions continued to build between the North and South. The South did not want Lincoln to be the President.

The North wanted to block the spread of slavery. They were also concerned that an extra slave state would give the South a political advantage. The South thought new states should be free to allow ...