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 On Nov. 6, 1861, Jefferson Davis, who had been elected president of the Provisional Government of the Confederacy on February 9, 1861, as a c…

On Oct. 16, 1859, John Brown and 21 armed followers stole into the town of Harper’s Ferry, Virginia, (now West Virginia) as most of its reside…

On Sept. 22, 1862, partly in response to the heavy losses inflicted at the Battle of Antietam, President Abraham Lincoln issued a preliminary …

On Sept. 1, 1864, Confederate General John B. Hood evacuated Atlanta, leaving the city, a crucial supply center for the Confederacy, in Union hands.

On Aug. 30, 1862, the Second Battle of Manassas(or Bull Run) ended a long campaign in northern Virginia. The campaign had begun when Union for…

Allan Pinkerton (1819-84), founder of Pinkerton’s National Detective Agency, was born in Glasgow, Scotland, on Aug. 25, 1819.

On Aug. 6, 1848, Susie King Taylor was born on a plantation in Georgia. In spite of her enslavement, she became a teacher, a nurse, and the on…