By Febrary 1, 1861, six more states -- Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas -- had split from ... Federal troops returned the fire. The Civil War had begun.

By pairing up California and Texas in an unlikely seceding coalition, Alex Garland indicates that the Civil War didn't start ...

Lutzweiler will discuss two seemingly unrelated topics: “The Primary Cause of the American Civil War: Looking Beyond Slavery” and “The Yellow Rose of Texas: Who Was She ... and Was She A Tar ...