Approximately 2.4 million soldiers were engaged in the Civil War, with around 1.56 million fighting for the North and an estimated 800,000 for the ... > Union wage: $7 a month > Confederate wage: $0 .

The CSS "Shenandoah" only learned of the Confederacy's defeat in the summer of 1865. That June, the cruiser's crew sank 24 ...

He died in 1914, one of the last surviving generals of the Civil War. Robert Ewell, wounded and captured near the war’s end, spent a year at the Fort Warren POW camp on George’s Island with 17 ...

15. Arkansas > Total sharpshooters: 385 > Sharpshooter troop allegiance: 100% Confederate > Union sharpshooter units formed in Arkansas: None > Arkansas’s official side in the Civil War: Confederate ...

An American Civil War monument on the Jessamine County Courthouse lawn in Kentucky honors those who fought in the Confederacy. But the statue wears a Union soldier’s hat.

We’re taught in school that the American Civil War ended when Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee surrendered to Union Gen. Ulysses S. Grant on April 9, 1865 — 160 years ago Wednesday.

But the Union, not the Confederacy, won that war -- a war it fought on and for the premise of a single America including the former Confederacy and former Confederates.

The Civil War had begun. Immediately following the attack, four more states ... By the end of the war more than 186,000 black soldiers had joined the Union army; 93,000 from the Confederate ...

More than 160 years after they were captured and executed by Confederate rebels, two U.S. soldiers are set to be posthumously recognized for their valor during the Civil War with the Medal of Honor.

The posthumous recognition comes as the legacy of the Civil War, which killed more than 600,000 Union and Confederate service members between 1861 and 1865, continues to shape U.S. politics in a ...