As many as 20% of Civil War soldiers were younger than ... were glad that the bloodiest war in American history had ended at last. But for most kids who survived, the war would never quite be ...

More from Wes about the causes of the Civil War. What led to the outbreak of the bloodiest conflict in the history of North America? A common explanation is that the Civil War was fought over the ...

Researching her family history, Cheryl Wills found she was related to a former slave who served in the Civil War with the ...

Although hundreds of thousands of people died fighting in the American Civil War, perhaps the war's biggest casualty was the nation's legal order. A Legal History of the Civil War and Reconstruction ...