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

But any attempt to send more men or supplies would be seen as an act of war civil war.

VOA: special.2009.07.30

The Civil War began in eighteen sixty-one as a struggle over the right of states to leave the Union.

VOA: special.2009.10.08

He proposed a new civil service system that would let ability -- not politics -- decide who got government jobs.

VOA: special.2010.04.29

Later,he wrote some of the best known songs of the civil rights and anti-Vietnam War protests of the sixties.

VOA: special.2011.06.27

He told Davis, "Firing upon that fort will begin a civil war greater than any the world has ever seen.

VOA: special.2009.08.06

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

It is named for Abraham Lincoln, the sixteenth president who led the nation through the Civil War in the eighteen sixties.

VOA: special.2009.08.09

In the nineteen sixties, a major black civil rights group declared it the national song of black people in America.

VOA: special.2009.10.04

The White House was the largest house in the country until after the Civil War in the eighteen sixties.

VOA: special.2009.05.08

The Democratic Party chose for its presidential candidate a hero of the Civil War -- General Winfield Scott Hancock of Pennsylvania.

VOA: special.2010.04.22

Twenty years after the Civil War, the Unitedbl States had become one of the leading industrial nations of the world.

VOA: special.2010.06.03

It is the story of Joseph Sutpen, who wants to start a famous Southern family after America's Civil War.

VOA: special.2010.01.10

President Abraham Lincoln led the Union of northern states in four years of civil war against the southern Confederacy.

VOA: special.2010.01.07