But he feared the Civil War would shatter his beloved nation ... on a list of wounded soldiers in the newspapers in December 1862, Walt hurried south to find his brother. Whitman was relieved ...

The Civil War had begun. Immediately following the attack ... not to free slaves. But by 1862, Lincoln was considering emancipation as a necessary step toward winning the war.

John Tomney arrived in New York after the war began but did not speak English. When he was captured by Confederate troops in ...

Charleston Harbour, South Carolina, 1862. A man named Robert Smalls is ... This daring plan not only turned Robert Smalls into a Civil War hero, but also set him on a path to becoming one of ...

It was sad to think of all he’d been through in his life, and he didn’t even have a headstone,” said Kendall Peruzzini, 13.