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 ...

Lee and the Army of Northern Virginia. While skirmishes between Union and Confederate soldiers would continue, the surrender at Appomattox signaled the end of the Civil War was near as Rebel ...

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

It would become his calling card, not backing down. Once Grant was brought East, Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee faced the ...

The National Zoo is CLOSED Wednesday, Feb. 12 due to snow. All other DC area museums are open as scheduled.

A few weeks after becoming general-in-chief of the Confederate states, Lee surrendered at Appomattox ... the end of the Civil War. Lee had surrendered the Army of Northern Virginia to Gen.

WILMINGTON – Historians, Civil War buffs, and people curious about what ... in a siege at the Confederate capital of Richmond, Va. and nearby Petersburg was doomed. In a note to fort commander ...

Lee at Appomattox Court House in Virginia on April 9, 1865, no secession of hostilities or retreat from overt and covert combat have transpired. Civil war raged here even prior to the adoption of ...