The seceded states created the Confederate States of America and elected Jefferson Davis ... Federal troops returned the fire. The Civil War had begun. Immediately following the attack, four ...

Here’s what happened in April 1861, leading up to the firing on Fort Sumter in Charleston, South Carolina, which spurred the launch of the American Civil War.

Two were recovered after the American Civil War at the confederate spy headquarters in Canada. The other one was found on Confederate President Jefferson Davis' desk that he was using as a ...

Section 3 of the 14th Amendment was introduced post-Civil War to block former Confederates from holding federal office, ...

A statue of Confederate president Jefferson Davis was torn down by protesters ... celebrate racism and tell a false narrative of the Civil War, and in the case of Columbus and other colonial ...

The American Civil War ... leading up to the war and what caused divisions. The White House of the Confederacy, nearby Tredegar, is the former home of Confederate President Jefferson Davis.