Alexander Stephens's infamous “Cornerstone” speech remains controversial even today. The simple revisionist narrative is that ...

By Febrary 1, 1861, six more states -- Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas -- had split from the Union. The seceded states created the Confederate States of America and ...

Those coins came in two different designs, each with its own story. 1861 Confederate States of America Half Dollar In 1861, the Confederacy decided to begin minting silver half dollars.

But in 1861, the American Union fell apart. 11 southern states came together to break away and form the Confederate States of America. The new country had its own President - Jefferson Davis ...

Then Louisiana seceded from the Union, and the facility was seized by the state. Finding dies and silver, it appears that Louisiana was responsible for the production of an additional 1,240,000 1861-O ...

By Frank J. Merli and Thomas W. Green. If there was one single factor during the American Civil War that promised to assure Southern independence, short of outright European intervention, it was that ...

But he would not actually become President until his inauguration on March 4th, 1861 in Washington ... formed a new government called the Confederate States of America.

A Civil War map in the National Archives in College Park, Maryland reads, “S. E. Missouri, Country Around Ironton” on its ...

The blue and gray ribbon denotes the respective uniform colors of the U.S. and Confederate troops. The Army Civil War Campaign Medal was established by the United States War Department on January 21, ...