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The American Civil War (1861–1865) was a sectional rebellion against the United States of America by the Confederate States, formed of eleven southern states' governments which moved to secede from the Union after the 1860 election of Abraham Lincoln as President of the United States. The Union's victory was eventually achieved by leveraging advantages in population, manufacturing and logistics and through a strategic naval blockade denying the Confederacy access to the world's markets.
In many ways, the conflict's central issues – the enslavement of African Americans, the role of constitutional federal government, and the rights of states – are still not completely resolved. Not surprisingly, the Confederate army's surrender at Appomattox on April 9,1865 did little to change many Americans' attitudes toward the potential powers of central government. The passage of the Thirteenth, Fourteenth and Fifteenth amendments to the Constitution in the years immediately following the war did not change the racial prejudice prevalent among Americans of the day; and the process of Reconstruction did not heal the deeply personal wounds inflicted by four brutal years of war and more than 970,000 casualties – 3 percent of the population, including approximately 560,000 deaths. As a result, controversies affected by the war's unresolved social, political, economic and racial tensions continue to shape contemporary American thought. The causes of the war, the reasons for the outcome, and even the name of the war itself are subjects of much discussion even today. (Full article)
The Battle of Gettysburg, also known as the Gettysburg Cyclorama, is a cyclorama painting by the French artist Paul Philippoteaux depicting Pickett's Charge, the climactic Confederate attack on the Union forces during the Battle of Gettysburg on July 3, 1863. (Full article...)
New Hampshire was a member of the Union during the American Civil War.
The state gave soldiers, money, and supplies to the Union Army. It sent 31,657 enlisted men and 836 officers, of whom about 20% were killed in action or died from disease or accident. (Full article...)
Matthew Stanley Quay (/kweɪ/; September 30, 1833 – May 28, 1904) was an American politician of the Republican Party who represented Pennsylvania in the United States Senate from 1887 until 1899 and from 1901 until his death in 1904. Quay's control of the Pennsylvania Republican political machine made him one of the most powerful and influential politicians in the country, and he ruled Pennsylvania politics for almost twenty years. As chair of the Republican National Committee and thus party campaign manager, he helped elect Benjamin Harrison as president in 1888 despite Harrison not winning the popular vote. He was also instrumental in the 1900 election of Theodore Roosevelt as vice president.
Quay studied law and began his career in public office by becoming prothonotary of Beaver County, Pennsylvania, in 1856. He became personal secretary to Governor Andrew Curtin in 1861 after campaigning for him the previous year. During the Civil War, he served in the Union Army, commanding the 134th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment as a colonel. Quay received the Medal of Honor for heroism at the Battle of Fredericksburg. He acted as Pennsylvania's military agent in Washington before returning to Harrisburg to assist Curtin and aid in his re-election in 1863. He was a member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives from 1865 to 1868. (Full article...)
- Image 1Atlanta roundhouse ruin at History of Atlanta, by George Barnard
- Image 2Military execution of the conspirators in the Abraham Lincoln assassination
- Image 4Christian Fleetwood
- Image 5Braxton Bragg
- Image 6George Armstrong Custer, by George L. Andrews
- Image 13Lithographic facsimile of the Bixby letter, by Huber's Museum
- Image 14William Birney
- Image 16President Rutherford B. Hayes was the 19th President of the USA
- Image 19Francis B. Spinola, Brigadier General for the Union in the American Civil War, and Congressman from New York
- Image 20The print version of Sherman in South Carolina: The burning of McPhersonville at McPhersonville, South Carolina, by William Waud
- Image 23Harriet Tubman
- Image 24The Chickahominy – Sumner's Upper Bridge at Peninsula campaign, by William McIlvaine
- Image 25Quaker guns, by George Barnard and James F. Gibson
- Image 26Charles Griffin
- Image 28Abner Doubleday
- Image 29Siege of Yorktown, by James F. Gibson
- Image 31United States President (and former Brigadier-General) Benjamin Harrison
- Image 33The burning of Columbia at Columbia, South Carolina in the American Civil War, by William Waud
- Image 35Confederate casualties at Chancellorsville during the American Civil War, by the National Archives and Records Administration
- Image 37Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
- Image 39Charles Pomeroy Stone
- Image 40Andersonville survivor
- Image 41Andersonville Prison at Andersonville National Historic Site, by John L. Ransom
- Image 43First Battle of Bull Run map
- Image 44Daniel McCallum, by the Brady National Photographic Art Gallery
- Image 46The original sketch of Sherman in South Carolina: The burning of McPhersonville, at and by William Waud
- ... that in the aftermath of the American Civil War, the only Black-led organization providing teachers to formerly enslaved people was the African Civilization Society?
- ... that Enoch Marvin Banks resigned from the University of Florida because of public outrage over his belief that the American Civil War was caused by slavery?
- ... that some Confederate bullets were sourced from a silver mine?
- ... that Chinese-born Joseph Pierce enlisted as a Union Army soldier, fought at the Battle of Gettysburg during the American Civil War, and was made a corporal?
- ... that Justus H. Rathbone, founder of the Knights of Pythias, served as a hospital steward during the American Civil War?
- ... that Colonel Bradley Winslow was brevetted by US president Abraham Lincoln for "brave and gallant conduct" during the siege of Petersburg in the American Civil War?
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