Key takeaways: The final shots of the Civil War Between October 1864 and June 1865, the Confederate raider Shenandoah sank or captured 38 enemy vessels, 24 of them in just one week. The Shenandoah ...

Fort Novosel in southeast Alabama will once again be named Fort Rucker, but it will no longer be in honor of Confederate Col. Edmund W. Rucker, a brigade commander during the Civil War.