• Part 37 -- Civil War of April 1864 saw atrocities and setbacks for the Union while Springfield flourished • Part 38 -- Civil War 150th anniversary: The battlefield carnage of May 1864 hits home in ...

For those who hoped and prayed the Civil War would soon end, February of 1865 provided the path toward a Union victory with the fall of Charleston, S.C., where the war began, and the raising of the ...

1865: Gen. Robert E. Lee surrenders the Army of Northern Virginia to Gen. Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Courthouse, Virginia, effectively ending the first war of the modern era. The American Civil ...

We kayak the Flint River to Owens Island, where a Civil War skirmish took place in 1865 near the old Double Bridges crossing ...

On November 6, 1865, the CSS Shenandoah lowered the Confederate flag and James I. Waddell surrendered command of the vessel to British authorities in Liverpool. The surrender came a full six months ...

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 – ...

“April is the cruelest month,” poet T.S. Eliot wrote. An inordinate number of tragedies have occurred in April. The sinking of the Titanic in 1912. The assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. in 1968.

Slatington’s Dick Matthews knows his Civil War. The vice president of the Whitehall Historical Preservation Society and retired New Jersey high school teacher and principal has pursued the conflict of ...

We are listing the American Civil War first for comparison. The others are in order by the lower-end estimated number of casualties. Years: 1861-1865 Estimated Death Toll: 620,000 – 750,000 Issues: ...

1865: Gen. Robert E. Lee surrenders the Army of Northern Virginia to Gen. Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Courthouse, Virginia, effectively ending the first war of the modern era. The American Civil ...