On May 10, 1865, Union troops captured Confederate President Jefferson Davis near Irwinville, Georgia.

“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…