Cue documentarian Ken Burns for the rest of the details. But one Civil War mystery still brews long after Robert E. Lee’s Confederate army surrendered at Appomattox on April 9, 1865.

Cue documentarian Ken Burns for the rest of the details. But one Civil War mystery still brews long after Robert E. Lee’s Confederate army surrendered at Appomattox on April 9, 1865.

With the end of the war at hand, the men of the regiment witnessed the surrender of Confederate General Joseph E. Johnston and his army at Bennett Place, North Carolina, in April 1865, which was ...

Confederate symbols of Civil War divide U.S. 150 years on By Wayne Hester June 24, 20157:30 PM PDTUpdated June 24, 2015 ...

All scalawags were excoriated in the white southern press, but none as viciously as Longstreet. Longstreet’s life (1821–1904) spanned the era of sectional conflict, Civil War, and Reconstruction.

LANSING, Mich. (WLNS) — Civil War era flags representing the 90,000 Michiganders who fought in the war were returned to public display Saturday at the state Capitol building.

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 ...

We’re taught in school that the American Civil War ended when Confederateu0003Gen. Robert E. Lee surrendered tou0003Union Gen. Ulysses S. Grant on April 9, 1865 — 160 years ago Wednesday.

LANSING, Mich. (WLNS) — Civil War era flags representing the 90,000 Michiganders who fought in the war were returned to public display Saturday at the state Capitol building. The flags are ...