1619 Project author Nikole Hannah-Jones falsely claimed this week that the Civil War – which began in April 1861 and resulted in an end to slavery in America – began in 1865, the year the war ...

1. Lee's Surrender at Appomattox Wasn't the End of the Civil War. Many people believe that Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee's famous surrender to Union Gen. Ulysses S. Grant on April 9, 1865, was ...

The episode will focus on the events of Jan. 25, 1865, when 22 Civil War soldiers were ambushed by outlaws and killed, while 20 more were injured, during a cattle drive to Louisville.

Holy Week in 1865 presented the last chance for the South to keep the past alive. ... Embers of the Civil War are still burning, some brush fires, others, uncontrollable flames.

Today: the results of forensic analysis of Abraham Lincoln's letter pardoning a Civil War soldier confirms the April 14, 1865 date was forged—and it can't be removed without damaging the document.

Looking back on the Civil War in his 1882 “Specimen Days & Collect,” Walt Whitman reflected that “the real war will never get in the books.” He had tried, in “Drum-Taps” (1865), a ...