Fifty-five years of living in the Southeast during which we enjoyed lots of travel resulted in visiting most of the National ...

During the Civil War, Confederates targeted free Black people in the North, kidnapping them to sell into slavery. After the ...

The Confederate capital of Richmond, Virginia, had fallen into Union hands on April 2, 1865. Robert E. Lee and the Army of ...

Surrender is one of the most essential rules in international humanitarian law. Don't expect it any time soon in the Middle ...

The Civil War was fought in 10,000 places, from Valverde, New Mexico, and Tullahoma, Tennessee, to St. Albans, Vermont, and Fernandina on the Florida coast. More than 3 million Americans fought ...

Appomattox Court House National Historical Park is located in South Central Virginia. The park interprets the final events of the Civil War. In early April 1865, Confederate General Robert E.

If you decide to travel further afield to Appomattox, you'll find an "The End of the War & Its Legacies," which delves into the start of reunification following the war. You can visit Tredegar and ...

General Lee and 21 confederate generals on horseback. 1867. Courtesy: Library of Congress. The official surrender document of Lee's troops to the Union Army, signed at Appomattox Court House on ...

His career steadily declined. At the end of the war, Pickett and his remaining troops served at the Battle of Appomattox Court House and surrendered with Lee's army. Pickett worked as an insurance ...

The tech oligarch has unleashed his slow-rolling coup d’etat across the federal government, and it’s not clear anything can ...