On April 9, 1865, General Robert E. Lee surrendered his army to Ulysses S. Grant at Virginia's Appomattox Court House, ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. (WHTM) — On April 9, 1865, Robert E. Lee surrendered the Army of Northern Virginia to Ulysses S. Grant. On April 26, Confederate General Joseph E. Johnston surrendered the armies ...

There were three reasons to celebrate Holy Week in April 1865: The resurrection of Jesus Christ, the end of the Civil War, and a resurrection of the self-consciousness of freed black men and former ...

New York Times Magazine reporter and 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 – ...

Archaeologists have unearthed a trove of Civil War weapons from South Carolina’s Congaree River. Cannonballs, artillery shells and other items have been lurking in the waterway since February 1865, ...

After Columbia and Charleston, South Carolina, fell to the Union, in early 1865, Jefferson Davis belatedly handed over the supreme command or the army to General Lee. This could not stop the Union ...

Cary, NC, Dec. 5 -- cdv Software Entertainment USA today launched the official North American Web site for AGEOD's American Civil War: 1861-1865 - The Blue and the Gray, their upcoming American Civil ...

We followed a 160-year-old Civil War map straight into the past, armed with metal detectors and a deep respect for history. Each beep brought us closer to uncovering relics left behind by soldiers and ...