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 ...

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 ...

We usually envision blue and gray armies battling it out east of Arizona when we think of the American Civil War, between the North and South way far away from the Grand Canyon and desert Southwest.

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.