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"Lee's surrender to Grant at Appomattox Court House evokes a highly gratifying image in the popular mind-it was, many believe, a moment that transcended politics, a moment of healing, a moment of ...

Fifty-five years of living in the Southeast during which we enjoyed lots of travel resulted in visiting most of the National Park Service’s many Civil War sites. Each proved enjoyable and educational, ...

Hutchins was at every major Civil War battle in the East: Seven Pines, Gaines Mill, Malvern Hill, the second battle of Manasses or Bull Run, Antietam, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, the Wilderness, ...

BELLA VISTA, Ark. (KNWA/KFTA) — The community of Bella Vista spent the evening looking back on our nation’s past. The Civil War Roundtable hosted “Appomattox – The Last 48 Hours”, detailing the events ...

The surrender of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia to Union Gen. Ulysses S. Grant near Appomattox on April 9, 1865 was an event remembered as essentially the end of the ...

Thirty years after the Civil War, Dewitt Clinton Beckwith, a veteran of the 121st New York Volunteers (Upton's Regulars) published a history of the regiment in the pages of The Herkimer Democrat a ...

The Boonsboro Volunteer Fire & Rescue Company said no injuries were reported after an accident on Tuesday. Martinsville City Council voted to advance their budget Martinsville City Council voted 3-2 ...

No period in American history is hotter than Reconstruction, when civil rights for emancipated slaves were established in law and deed only to be tragically eviscerated. In “Klan War: Ulysses S. Grant ...