A common explanation is that the Civil War was fought over the moral issue ... The election of a Republican, Abraham Lincoln, as President in 1860 sealed the deal. His victory, without a single ...

For 250 years, the US Army has adapted as a living organization composed of operating units and institutional organizations ...

On November 6, 1860 Abraham Lincoln was elected President ... Federal troops returned the fire. The Civil War had begun. Immediately following the attack, four more states -- Virginia, Arkansas ...

By a stroke of historical happenstance, decades later, Barka Gana’s son, Nicholas Said, would serve as a sergeant in the U.S. Army and fight in the American Civil War to end the enslavement of ...

The ladies took over the house in 1860 -- a year before the start of the Civil War -- at a time of fast-rising tensions between the North and South. "There was some nervousness about what might ...

Of the imports, $46,339,611 were in specie, against $8,556,135 for 1860, showing a reduction in ... The exportation of these have not been affected by the war. In the meantime our imports had ...

Since the Civil War, presidential contests have been dominated ... Watch to see how the states voted in every presidential election since 1860. Produced by Alex Kuzoian Follow BI Video: On ...

Democratic Party History. The Democratic party is the oldest existing political party in America. Democrats have won 19 of 42 presidential elections since the party first ran a pr ...

Not all Clevelanders hated slavery, nor were they all convinced that a civil war would resolve the deep-seated ideological differences. As the country moved toward the election of 1860, and closer ...