From 1861 to 1865, the United States was ripped in two by war – with the Union in the North and the seceded states, the Confederacy, in the South. These four years witnessed unprecedented bloodshed, ...

ON APRIL 14TH,1865, PRESIDENT ABRAHAM LINCOLN WAS ASSASSINATED BY JOHN WILKES BOOTH AT FORD’S THEATRE IN WASHINGTON, D.C. BOOTH AND OTHER CONFEDERATE SYMPATHIZERS PLOTTED TO ASSASSINATE PRESIDENT ...