American women would not be welcome as full-time military members until 1948, but those who really, really wanted to fight ...

Like Jimmy Jr., many young white men in the Civil War South equated military service with adult masculinity. Indeed, the Confederate ... were anxious to don uniforms, drill in the streets, march ...

James, a foreign agent for the Confederacy, was sent to Liverpool to buy and build ships for its navy ... Confederate sympathies over the years. "It was said during the American Civil War that ...

James, a foreign agent for the Confederacy, was sent to Liverpool to buy and build ships for its navy ... Confederate sympathies over the years. "It was said during the American Civil War that ...