The exact origin of the word “Yankeeâ€� is obscure, but by the 1770s it referred to the English colonists, particularly New Englanders. A “doodl…

“It would be useless and therefore cruel,â€Â Robert E. Lee remarked on the morning of April 9, 1865, “to provoke the further effusion of blood, …

During March and April 1865, troops under command of Confederate Gen. Joseph E. Johnston fought Gen. William T. Sherman’s 60,000-man force as …