American women would not be welcome as full-time military members until 1948, but those who really, really wanted to fight ...

More from Wes about the causes of the Civil War. What led to the outbreak of the ... that was central to the conflict. A key issue was states' rights. The Southern states wanted to assert their ...

South Carolina. Federal troops returned the fire. The Civil War had begun. Immediately following the attack, four more states -- Virginia, Arkansas, North Carolina, and Tennessee -- severed their ...

During the next 80 years ... plunging the nation into the Civil War – the bloodiest four years in American history. The Civil War devastated South Carolina’s population and economy, but ...

It began only months after Southern states seceded from the Union, when Southern troops attacked and captured the federally held Fort Sumter in Charleston, South Carolina. Over the next four years ...

The South Haven Historical Association will hold a presentation Tuesday on the role Southwest Michigan played helping slaves ...