Civil War America, a small number of Jewish slaveowners defended the practice. Other prominent Jews joined with abolitionists ...

Courtesy: Library of Congress Whitman was forty-two years old when the Civil War started ... offering modest gifts of fruit, candy, books, pencils and paper to the hospitalized soldiers.

“To speak as the slave would, to say that we are as happy for the Civil War as most Americans are for the Revolutionary War, is to rupture the narrative.” ...

"Incidents of the war: A harvest of death." The three days of conflict at Gettysburg resulted in 51,000 casualties, making it the bloodiest battle of the Civil War. Courtesy: Library of Congress ...