The CSS "Shenandoah" only learned of the Confederacy's defeat in the summer of 1865. That June, the cruiser's crew sank 24 ...

Fitz Lee grew up in Dinwiddie County, received the Medal of Honor for bravery during wartime and died of health issues ...

Lincoln was, as usual, astute. The abolitionist movement in the North was led by Christians convinced that God abhorred ...

Petersburg National Battlefield is located in South-central Virginia. The park offers driving tours of the siege and bat ...

[LEXINGTON] Washington and Lee University has received a collection of 29 vintage prints and original graphics depicting Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee's surrender at Appomattox.

An owner of Colt Grill allegedly told a manager not to worry about calculating pay, taxes and worker’s compensation.

New research is shedding light on a 40-acre military camp for Black soldiers that fanned out from the southeast corner of ...

The president has pandered to his MAGA base through the subterfuge of re-renaming forts after soldiers with the same last ...

There might not be a lot of mystery surrounding how the Civil War turned out when it ended in April 1865. In the simplest of oversimplified nutshells: * The Union defeated the Confederacy. * The ...

Juneteenth, the day commemorating the end of slavery in the United States, is not a state holiday in Florida. Here's what to ...

Social media users quickly mocked Trump for not knowing the end date of the Civil War, which concluded in April 1865 after Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrendered to the Union troops.