“The American Civil War has an official end date, and that end date is August 1866,” Vorenberg said. Notably, the official ...

Regarded as the war’s finest general, Robert E. Lee was a master of the organization of war. The country’s most experienced general in 1861, he declined President Lincoln’s offer to head the ...

The Struggle to End the American Civil War” By Michael Vorenberg, read by Landon Woodson. Random House Audio, 16½ hours, $28.

On orders from generals Robert E. Lee and John Gordon ... ever fought on American soil was coming to an end. The Civil War was entering its fifth year. Nothing in America’s experience in ...

Robert E. Lee was a central character in America's defining national trauma, the Civil War. These images explore other facets of his life, from the young boy coping with the abandonment of an ...

The American Civil War is no exception, since there was no convenient peace treaty to lend it a conventional closing date. And how could there have been, since the Lincoln administration ...

Had the Union maintained a larger and stronger post-Civil War occupying army ... Good Friday Agreement Today in History: April 9, Robert E. Lee surrenders to Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox ...