“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 …

The mayor of Charleston, South Carolina, surrendered control of the city to Union Brig. Gen. Alexander Schimmelfennig at 9 a.m. on Saturday, F…

Thomas Jonathan “Stonewallâ€� Jackson, one of Robert E. Lee’s generals in the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia, was born in Clarksburg, Vir…

On the afternoon of Dec. 16, 1864, Union troops led by General George H. Thomas devastated Confederate forces at Nashville, Tennessee. The bat…

On Sept. 1, 1864, Confederate General John B. Hood evacuated Atlanta, leaving the city, a crucial supply center for the Confederacy, in Union hands.

On Aug. 30, 1862, the Second Battle of Manassas(or Bull Run) ended a long campaign in northern Virginia. The campaign had begun when Union for…