Before Lincoln turned the idea of “the Union” into a cause worth dying for, he tried other means of ending slavery in America ...

This coming Wednesday, April 9, our great Union of states will officially be celebrating the 160th Anniversary of the official End of the Civil War with General Robert E. Lee’s surrender to ...

The book challenges the traditional narrative that the Civil War ended neatly in April 1865 with the surrender of General Robert Lee to General Ulysses Grant at the Appomattox Court House, Vorenberg ...

In this new episode of Kings and Generals’ Civil War series, we cover the Battle of ... against fortified Confederate positions, General Lee's army inflicted staggering losses.

More than 2,000 Confederate symbols are still standing in public spaces across the U.S., according to a report released ...

Burnside sent Generals Meade and Doubleday ... the battle and with control of the hill in hand, Lee commented to Longstreet … “It is well war is so terrible, we would grow too fond of it.” ...

The following events happened on these dates in West Virginia history. To read more, go to e-WV: The West Virginia ...

Lee’s surrender at Appomattox—dramatically illustrates the dangers of letting myth substitute for accurate history. For ...

By Sui-Lee Wee Reporting from Bangkok ... its airstrikes in the ongoing civil war and impeding the flow of aid in the days after the quake. For the general, the Bangkok visit — his first to ...

Texas Republicans are bracing for an explosive Senate primary next year in the latest chapter of an ongoing civil war that has divided ... this week after Attorney General Ken Paxton, an ally ...