Aaron Sheehan-Dean spoke on the events of the last months of the Civil War, the participants' experiences, and the post-war world. He discussed the perspectives of the white southerners, the black ...

African Americans had likely known themselves to be legally free before General Order No. 3, but acting on this knowledge was ...

Springfield & The Civil War We at The Republican are launching a four-year project to tell the story of how our community coped with 48 months of war, from April of 1861 to April of 1865.

For those who hoped and prayed the Civil War would soon end, February of 1865 provided the path toward a Union victory with the fall of Charleston, S.C., where the war began, and the raising of ...

AGEOD's "American Civil War: the Blue and the Gray" is one of the best serious treatments of the Civil War ever made, for any platform -- PC or boardgame. But it's pitched to the grognard, not the ...

Civil War campers spend 18 hours in 1865. By Jackie Spinner . Sept. 25, 2005 12 AM PT . Share via Close extra sharing options. ... In Civil War parlance, this Sunday boy, this butternut, was mine.

Looking back on the Civil War in his 1882 “Specimen Days & Collect,” Walt Whitman reflected that “the real war will never get in the books.” He had tried, in “Drum-Taps” (1865), a ...

Since the war concluded in 1865, though, numerous other countries have suffered through similar conflicts, ... The American Civil War. Lee Walters / iStock via Getty Images. Years: 1861-1865; ...

That was certainly the case for the October 4, 1865, issue. This was a mere six months after the end of the Civil War, at a ...

Watch Christopher W. Lane's appraisal of an 1865 Civil War allegory lithograph, in Vintage Providence. Aired: 06/16/14 Rating: TV-G Buy Now: Buy on iTunes Buy on Amazon ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. (WHTM) — On April 9, 1865, Robert E. Lee surrendered the Army of Northern Virginia to Ulysses S. Grant. On April 26, Confederate General Joseph E. Johnston surrendered the ar… ...

April 1865 was a momentous month, from the end of the Civil War to the assassination of President Lincoln, with the impact felt in Cincinnati.