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Letters Trace Civil War for Writer's Forebears

BOSTON (AP) - Alone in his hotel room after a solemn dinner with his brother, the newly enlisted Army surgeon took up pen and paper to make the first installment on his promise. "I have a few moments," he wrote to his wife, just 10 miles up the coast in Lynn. "I am in such a whirl that I can hardly think much less...

Poll: 4 in 10 Southerners Still Side With Confederacy

A century and a half after the opening shots of the U.S. Civil War, nearly four in 10 Southerners say they still sympathize with the Confederacy. That's according to a new CNN poll released on the 150th anniversary of the start of the Civil War, when Union soldiers raised a U.S. flag over Fort Sumter in South Carolina and...

US Celebrates 150th Anniversary of Civil War [VIDEO]

Faces of the Civil War Go on Display in Library of Congress [VIDEO]

Striking portraits of the young men who fought and died in the Civil War go on display at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. this week, to mark today's 150th anniversary of the start of the fighting, NBC reports.

150th Anniversary Civil War Battles [PHOTOS]

CHARLESTON, S.C. -- Cannons boomed around Charleston Harbor this morning, The Associated Press Reported, re-creating the bombardment of Fort Sumter that plunged the nation into the Civil War on April 12, 1861, 150 years ago today. The nation's bloodiest war resulted in more than 600,000 deaths. A look at many of the...

Background on Civil War

A civil war is a war between organized groups within the same nation state or republic, or, less commonly, between two countries created from a formerly-united nation state.

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