Springfield & The Civil War We at The Republican are launching a four-year project to tell the story of how our community coped with 48 months of war, from April of 1861 to April of 1865.

It was a Fourth of July unlike any other in the nation's history. Independence Day 1865 -- exactly 150 years ago -- was an uneasy mix of joy, relief, resentment and unhealed wounds as Americans ...

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 ...

According to the Civil War Trust, 620,000 soldiers died in the Civil War and another 476,000 were wounded. If you purchase a product or register for an account through a link on our site, we may ...

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 ...

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 ar… ...

AGEOD's "American Civil War: the Blue and the Gray" is one of the best serious treatments of the Civil War ever made, for any platform -- PC or boardgame. But it's pitched to the grognard, not the ...

Editor’s note: This continues a series of reports on what happened in Southern Illinois 150 years ago, during the Civil War. Reports will appear on days of significance to Southern ...

Four years of heart-wrenching, bloody conflict, with between 620,000 and 750,000 dead, but the Civil War was over at last. The Union was preserved. Slavery was abolished.

Michael Lally Civil War letters, 1861-1865. January 29, 2008. Description by Sarah Shoemaker. Photos and scans by Maggie McNeely. Michael Lally, an immigrant to Massachusetts from Ireland, fought for ...

In late-April 1865, with the Civil War drawing to a close, the barge [Black Diamond] sank following a nighttime collision on the lower Potomac River with a steamer loaded with Union troops. The ...