And US civil war admiral David Farragut probably never said Damn the torpedoes!

The first miners arrived in 1866, just one year after the US Civil War ended.

Fifty-thousand men died, the Union won and the Confederacy was doomed to lose the US civil war.

The commemoration of the 150th anniversary of the US Civil War is triggering many re-enactments across America's Southern states.

Following the US Civil War, many slaves who gained their freedom acquired land which their family had worked for generations.

One hundred and fifty years ago, the first shots of the US Civil War were fired in Charleston, South Carolina.

Should he prevail, Mr Espy would become the first black senator since the Reconstruction era following the US Civil War.

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This year is the 150th anniversary of the battle of Gettysburg, widely considered the turning point of the US Civil War.

US Civil War drama Lincoln leads this year's nominations with 10 nods, including best film and best actor for Daniel Day-Lewis.

Grant, it turns out, is a direct descendant of Ulysses S Grant, US civil war general and the country's 18th president.

US civil war drama, Lincoln has led this year's Baftas with 10 nominations including best film and best actor for Daniel Day-Lewis.

The US Civil War was in part fought over whether states should have the right to set their own laws around slavery.

A woman convicted of killing her family has become the first black female to be executed in Texas since the US Civil War.

Mail-in voting has been around since the US Civil War, and is used by the US military, Trump himself and members of his family.

The conflict has begun to join the US civil war as a national trauma that is finally sponsoring art in new and unexpected ways.