An actor plays Spanish-American Admiral David Farrugut, a hero in the Battle of Mobile Bay during the American Civil War.

VOA: special.2009.09.18

This week in our series, Steve Ember and Shirley Griffith describe the first days of the American Civil War.

VOA: special.2009.08.20

In the American Civil War, the North hoped for a quick victory by capturing the southern capital at Richmond,Virginia.

VOA: special.2009.09.17

By the autumn of eighteen sixty-four, it appeared that the North would defeat the South in the American Civil War.

VOA: special.2009.12.03

This week in our series, Kay Gallant and Harry Monroe continue the story of President Lincoln and the American Civil War.

VOA: special.2009.12.17

Some writers believe that the phrase would soon have disappeared were it not for the American Civil War.

VOA: special.2009.02.22

Just before sunrise on April twelfth, eighteen sixty-one, the first shot was fired in the American Civil War.

VOA: special.2009.08.13

This week in our series, Frank Oliver and Jack Weitzel continue the story of the American Civil War.

VOA: special.2009.08.27

This week in our series, Harry Monroe and Kay Gallant continue the story of the American Civil War.

VOA: special.2009.12.03

This week in our series, Stuart Spencer and Leo Scully continue the story of the American Civil War.

VOA: special.2009.12.24

This week in our series, Maurice Joyce and Jack Moyles discuss the early summer of eighteen sixty-three in the American Civil War.

VOA: special.2009.10.22

The area of the Santa Fe Trail around Fort Union was also involved in the American Civil War.

VOA: special.2009.03.30

In the eighteen sixties, during the American Civil War, Union soldiers won a battle on Roanoke Island.

VOA: special.2009.08.17

Her father,Arthur Keller, was a captain in the army of the South during the American Civil War.

VOA: special.2009.11.08

Then,as the American Civil War began, the Virginia state government voted to rebel against the United States.

VOA: special.2009.07.20

In eighteen sixty-one, the American Civil War put an end to steamboat traffic on the Mississippi.

VOA: special.2010.03.21

In the early weeks of eighteen sixty-three, the American Civil War took a new political direction.

VOA: special.2009.10.15

Copland's music included parts of American folk songs and songs popular during the American Civil War.

VOA: special.2009.06.21

Why did they become so famous? The story of these famous men began a little before the American Civil War of the eighteen sixties.

VOA: special.2010.03.10

Travel was impossible during the four year American Civil War that began in eighteen sixty-one.

VOA: special.2009.07.12

Two summers had gone by since the start of the American Civil War, and the North had not yet won a major battle in Virginia.

VOA: special.2009.09.24

Someone who is deeply interested in the American Civil War is a Civil War buff.

VOA: special.2009.05.17

His father,Arthur MacArthur, was a hero of the American Civil War and continued to serve in the army after the war ended in eighteen sixty-five.

VOA: special.2009.05.24

The American Civil War in the eighteen sixties was fought not only on land.

VOA: special.2009.09.10