Thursday, January 31, 1865 - The U.S. Congress approved the 13th Amendment to the United States Constitution. The ammendment, to abolish slavery, was then submitted to the states for ratification.

"Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude...shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction."
- The 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution

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TIERRA VERDE -- The Battle of Ballast Point was barely a skirmish, by the epic standards of the U.S. Civil War, but don't tell that to the Florida boys in blue and gray. They're bringing American history to life this weekend at Fort De Soto Park. Read More...

The Civil War Preservation Trust will release an investigative report at a news conference March 13 on the 10 most endangered Civil War sites in the country and what’s being done to rescue them. Read More...

Two lifetime collections of Civil War memorabilia will kick off a huge, two-day sale to be held March 16-17 by Stevens Auction Company in Aberdeen, Miss. Saturday will be dedicated to local estates. Read More...

Each year hundreds of spectators descend on Picacho Peak State Park to watch re-enactments of this Arizona Civil War skirmish and the New Mexico battles of Glorieta and Val Verde. This year the re-enactments take place on March 10 and 11 at Picacho Peak State Park. Read More...

A monument dedication ceremony for Reed, Johnstown’s first Medal of Honor winner, will be held in conjunction with Veterans Day at 10 a.m. Saturday at Grandview Cemetery on Millcreek Road just outside Johnstown.

The reason for the ceremony is to place a proper grave marker: The current one has the Congressional Medal of Honor engraved upside down.Cpl. George W. Reed has been dead for 100 years. Read More...

  ....the soldiers hated sharpshooters. They had a feeling that sharpshooters never really affected the course of a battle: they were sheer malignant nuisances, taking unfair advantages and killing men who might just as well have remained alive. Read More...

You know about President Abraham Lincoln and General U.S. Grant. But do you know who was probably the next most popular civil war hero from Illinois? He was from a prominent family of Democrats from “Little Egypt,” that southern part of Illinois to which northerners went to buy food after their crops failed in 1832. He was so highly regarded that, upon his death in 1886, his body was laid in state in the rotunda of the U.S. Capitol. Earlier, when President Lincoln was assassinated, there was such outrage among the Union troops stationed at Raleigh, N.C., that they were prepared to destroy that city out of pure anger. However, this Union general rode his horse in front of the Union cannons and soldiers and declared they would have to shoot him first. Read More...