Biography of Varina Howell Davis wife of Confederate President Jefferson Davis
The cultural conception of death prior to the war created the framework through which Americans understood…
The Wilmot Proviso, first proposed by Democratic congressman David Wilmot in 1846, prohibited slavery…
An analysis of how both sides handled desertion and cowardice
Civil War soldiers’ diaries and letters | Sullivan Ballou | Library of Congress | Huntington Library…
Union and Confederate Diplomacy
A variety of diseases afflicting Civil War soldiers caused significantly more casualties than battle.
Stephen A. Douglas's believed that the central government should exercise only expressly delegated powers…
Frederic Douglass | Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey | Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglas…
The 1857 Supreme Court ruling on a number of issues relating to slavery.
McClellan’s slowness in launching the Peninsula Campaign, which began with the departure of the Federal…
