In every war of the United States since the Civil War the South was more belligerent than the rest of the country.

The other, of course, was the Civil War, the conflict which a century ago insured national unity over fragmentation.

according to many critics, in fact, the South has led the North in literature since the Civil War, both quantitatively and qualitatively.

Undoubtedly even the old Southern stalwart Richmond has felt the new wind: William Styron mentions in his latest novel an avenue named for Bankhead McGruder, a Civil War general, now renamed, in typical California fashion, `` Buena Vista Terrace ''.

The present issue in Atlantica -- whether to transform an alliance of sovereign nations into a federal union of sovereign citizens -- resembles the American one of 1787-89 rather than the one that was resolved by Civil War.

It is much less difficult now than in Lincoln's day to see that on both sides sovereign Americans had given their lives in the Civil War to maintain the balance between the powers they had delegated to the States and to their Union.

Instead of this the 1930's witnessed a tragic economic depression, the rise of Fascist dictators in Europe, the wasting Civil War in Spain.

The thoroughgoing idealization of the planter society did not come, however, until after the Civil War when Southern writers were eager to defend a way of life which had been destroyed.

Without saying or seeming to say that in portraying the Sartoris and the Compson families Faulkner's chief concern is social criticism, we can say nevertheless that through those families he dramatizes his comment on the planter dynasties as they have existed since the decades before the Civil War.

The chief literary antecedents of the Snopes clan appeared in the realistic, humorous writing which originated in the South and the Southwest in the three decades before the Civil War.

In the story of Bright and the Corn Law agitation, the Crimean War, the American Civil War, and the franchise struggle Trevelyan reflects something of the moral power which enabled this independent man to exercise so immense an influence over his fellow countrymen for so long.

A popular belief grew up after the war that the only time during the Civil War that Thomas ever put his horse to a gallop was when he went to hurry up Stanley for this assault.

The Secretary of War gave his assent after studying the history of the draft in the American Civil War as well as the British volunteer system in World War 1.

In spite of this catastrophe the final mortality figure from disease in the American Army during World War 1, was 15 per 1,000 per year, contrasted with 110 per 1,000 per year in the Mexican War, and 65 in the American Civil War.

This magnificent but greatly underestimated book, which bodies forth the very form and pressure of its time as no other comparable creation, has suffered severely from having been written about an historical event -- the Spanish Civil War -- that is still capable of fanning the smoldering fires of old political feuds.

In 1950, Public Law 920 created Civil Defense ( different from Civilian-groups of World War 2 ), a responsibility of the Government at all levels to help reduce loss of life and property in disaster, natural or manmade.

Laudably enough, it is offering classics and off-beat imports, but last week only one U.S. original was on the boards, Robert D. Hock's stunning Civil War work, Borak.

Even before the benches had dried, the Civil War veterans were straggling back to their places.

As this year marks the centennial of the beginning of the Civil War, this fact is being commemorated with several exhibits throughout the State, but most of all paying tribute to the first Rhode Island Volunteers who rushed to the defense of the City of Washington, putting at the disposal of President Lincoln the only fully equipped and best trained regiment at this time.

At that time, during the Civil War, Union muskets were being manufactured in Providence and the drills to drill them were being hand-filed with rattail files.

* 1846 – Julian Scott, American artist and American Civil War Medal of Honor recipient ( d. 1901 )

* 1900 – American Civil War: Sergeant William Harvey Carney is awarded the Medal of Honor, for his heroism in the Assault on the Battery Wagner in 1863.

* Orion P. Howe ( 1848 – 1930 ), Union drummer boy in American Civil War, and one of the youngest recipients of the U. S. Medal of Honor

William Rufus Shafter ( October 16, 1835 – November 12, 1906 ) was a Union Army officer during the American Civil War who received America's highest military decoration, the Medal of Honor, for his actions at the Battle of Fair Oaks.

* List of American Civil War Medal of Honor recipients: M-Z

The grandson of jurist and politician Arthur MacArthur, Sr., Arthur would later receive the Medal of Honor for his actions with the Union Army in the Battle of Missionary Ridge during the American Civil War, and be promoted to the rank of lieutenant general.

Through his career, Ammann was the recipient of several awards including the Thomas Fitch Rowland Prize ( 1919 ), the Metropolitan Section Civil Engineer of the Year ( 1958 ), the Ernest E. Howard Award ( 1960 ) and the National Medal of Science ( 1964 ).

In 1956, Ulbricht was awarded the Hans Beimler Medal, for veterans of the Spanish Civil War, which caused controversy among other recipients, who had actually served on the front line.

Later, the city gained a Gold Medal for Military Valour and one for Civil Valour in memory of the event and the subsequent effort of reconstruction.

A young boy, Bugler John Cook, served in the U. S. Army at the age of 15 and received the Medal of Honor for his acts during the Civil War Battle of Antietam, the bloodiest day in American history.

William Harvey Carney ( February 29, 1840 – December 8, 1908 ) was an African American soldier during the American Civil War who received the Medal of Honor for his actions during the Battle of Fort Wagner.

* List of American Civil War Medal of Honor recipients: A – F

In 1995 the city was awarded the Bronze Medal for Civil Valour in recognition of the hard work done in clearing the region of dangerous unexploded warheads, a task that lasted well into 1948.

* Louis C. Shepard, American Civil War Medal of Honor recipient from Ashtabula County, buried in Lakeview cemetery, Port Clinton, Ottawa County, Ohio.

* Andrew J. Tomlin, American Civil War Medal of Honor recipient and County Sheriff from Goshen, Cape May County, New Jersey buried in Goshen Methodist cemetery.

* William Smith ( Medal of Honor ) ( 1838 – 1902 ), American Civil War sailor and Medal of Honor recipient

As a young officer in the Civil War, Bingham rose from lieutenant to brigadier general ; he was awarded the Medal of Honor for his actions at the Battle of the Wilderness.

* George F. Pond, Civil War era Medal of Honor recipient

* Clinton Lycurgus Armstrong, ( b. 1844 ) Medal of Honor recipient for the Siege of Vicksburg during the American Civil War

* Nathaniel Allen Recreation Area ( NARA ): Originally named the North Acton Recreation Area, NARA's name was changed in 2012 to honor an Acton resident who was awarded the Medal of Honor for his actions in the Civil War.

* Adelbert Ames ( d. 1933 ), Medal of Honor recipient ; last surviving Civil War general

* James H. Robinson, Medal of Honor recipient during the Civil War

Six Italian Americans received the Congressional Medal of Honor during the Civil War, among whom was Colonel Luigi di Cesnola, later to become the first director of the Metropolitan Museum of Arts in New York.

* William Sickles, Medal of Honor, Civil War