What happened to Confederate money after the Civil War? – Ray G., 12, Arlington, Virginia At the time the Civil War began in 1861, the United States government did not print paper money; it only ...

Robert Smalls published a newspaper, established a transportation company and served five terms in the United States Congress ...

The African American Civil War Museum in D.C. marked Juneteenth with a celebration to honor the estimated 6,000 Black ...

For example, a memorial honoring Robert Smalls, the enslaved Civil War hero who famously sailed a Confederate vessel out of Charleston Harbor and turned it over to the Union navy, and later served ...

When was the Civil War? The Civil War started in April 1861 and raged for four years, according to Encyclopedia Brittanica.. The war began to die down on April 9, 1865, when Confederate Gen ...

In 1898, 33 years after the end of the Civil War, the Spanish-American War brought a sudden, unanticipated harmony and unity to a country that had been riven by war and a punitive postwar military ...