What are the Enduring Legacies of the American Civil War?
What did the violence in the bloodiest conflict in US history yield in the postwar era?
American Civil War
Surrender in the American Civil War
One in every four soldiers surrendered at some point during the American Civil War. It was an honourable way of accepting defeat – provided it was done under the right circumstances.
William ‘Buffalo Bill’ Cody dies
The frontiersman and showman died on January 10, 1917.
Slavery, Women’s Suffrage and the American Civil War
As calls for women’s suffrage gained momentum following the Civil War, an uncomfortable racial faultline emerged dividing white suffragists from their African-American sisters.
The Ku Klux Klan
The ‘invisible empire’ of the Klan, writes Louis C. Kleber, was the answering organization in the Southern states to the Radical regimes imposed by the victorious North.
Premiere of Gone With the Wind
The much-loved film first appeared in theatres on December 15th, 1939.
General Sherman’s Total War
‘War is an uncivil game and can’t be civilised’, said one Union sergeant of General Sherman’s rampage through Georgia in 1864. Matt Carr discusses this turning point in the American Civil War.
Launching the Confederate Navy
David Woodward describes how the Confederacy's hope of continuing to exist depended upon gaining command of the sea and of vital coastal and inland waters.
The Fire Fly on Union Mills Bridge, 1863
Roger Hudson expands on a photograph of a locomotive taken during the American Civil War by one of Mathew Brady’s team.
Letters of Mrs Philip van Cortlandt, December 1776 – February 1777
The experiences of a family of New Amsterdam stock during the early months of the American Revolutionary War