And bizarrely, it was tried and kind of worked. Back in the American Civil War, the American military founded its first aerial force, the Union Army Balloon Corps. Thank Union desperation and ...

Robert E. Lee surrendered at Appomattox Court House on April 9, 1865. Elsewhere in the country, parts of the rebel army ...

19 (UPI) --On this date in history: In 1861, Georgia voted to secede from the Union and joined the Confederacy ... who had been convicted of treason for her World War II Japanese propaganda ...

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When the Civil War started, the Confederate States of ... a wooden ship sunk when Virginia seceded from the Union to keep it out of rebel hands. The Confederacy rebuilt it as an armored, steam ...

Abraham Lincoln wanted peace, for the war to end. He expressed his desire to "bind up the nation's wounds" in his second ...