By Febrary 1, 1861, six more states -- Mississippi ... Finally, on April 18, 1865, the Civil War ended with the surrender of the Confederate army. 617,000 Americans had died in the war ...

It is hard to imagine many countries where such figures would be commemorated by the very military ... Confederate commander in Charleston who opened fire on Union troops in Fort Sumpter in 1861 ...

For many, symbols of the Confederacy - the slaveholding southern states that seceded, prompting the 1861-65 American ... the names of Confederate generals from US military bases.

The military encounters between Union and Confederate soldiers and between both armies and ... The battles of Virginia, 1861 Hunter Lesser 3. The battles of Tennessee, 1862 Timothy B. Smith 4. The ...