The Civil War

The two sides in the Civil War

Slavery in America

A nation divided

Abraham Lincoln for president

Secession

Fort Sumter attacked

Raw recruits

The Battle of Bull Run

Robert E. Lee, genral and gentleman

Lincoln's generals

The Battle of the Ironclads

The Emancipation Proclamation

Black soldiers

Tragedy at Chancellorsville

Civil War authors

Gettysburg

The draft riots

Unconditional surrender Grant

The Gettysburg Address

Angels of the battlefield

"Dearest wife" : soldiers' letters home

The home front, North and South

"Damn the torpedoes!"

Sherman's March to the Sea

The election of 1864

Battles in the backyard

Surrender at Appomattox

The president is shot!

The ashes of war

Unfinished business : Reconstruction

Civil rights and wrongs

Glossary

The central players

Timeline.