On May thirtieth, eighteen sixty-eight, flowers were placed on the graves of Union and Confederate soldiers at Arlington National Cemetery.

VOA: special.2009.05.25

Within the first few weeks of the Civil War, the Confederate Congress voted to move the capital farther north to Richmond,Virginia.

VOA: special.2009.08.20

The city fell. After capturing Atlanta, General Sherman fought a series of small battles with a Confederate force across northern Georgia.

VOA: special.2009.12.03

The Army of the Potomac the strongest of the Union armies had tried to seize Richmond, the Confederate capital.

VOA: special.2009.09.24

At Fort Sumter, Major Robert Anderson and his men waited three hours before firing back at the Confederate guns.

VOA: special.2009.08.13

The Southern Confederate soldiers are shown forced under the feet of the horses, while the horsemen hold their swords high.

VOA: special.2010.07.25

This week in our series, Maurice Joyce and Leo Scully tell the story of the final surrender of the Confederate armies.

VOA: special.2010.01.14

Confederate leaders ordered the attack after President Abraham Lincoln refused to withdraw the small force of American soldiers at Sumter.

VOA: special.2009.08.13

He believed slaves could be made into good soldiers if they believed they had an interest in Confederate victory.

VOA: special.2009.12.03

After three and a half years of fighting, hundreds of thousands of Union and Confederate soldiers had been killed or wounded.

VOA: special.2009.12.03

When the Virginians captured the town, they sent the equipment south, where it was used to make guns for Confederate soldiers.

VOA: special.2009.08.20

Confederate President Jefferson Davis ordered his commander in Charleston, General Beauregard, to destroy the fort before the food could arrive.

VOA: special.2009.08.13

Jefferson Davis left his farm in Mississippi to become president of the Confederate States of America on February eleventh.

VOA: special.2009.07.23

He was afraid Confederate forces in Virginia might try to capture Washington in the first days of the war.

VOA: special.2009.08.20

And it was three days after the Confederate Army of the southern states attacked federal forces at Fort Sumter, South Carolina.

VOA: special.2011.04.15

In eighteen sixty-three, Union forces defeated Confederate forces in the bloodiest battle of the American Civil War the Battle of Gettysburg.

VOA: special.2009.11.19

He wanted to see Confederate soldiers go back to their homes to become peaceful citizens of a united country.

VOA: special.2009.12.17

They would build a canal to carry them past the turn in the river, past the Confederate cannon.

VOA: special.2009.11.19