Folks at the Appomattox Court House National Historical Park got the chance to play and watch how Civil War 'Base Ball' was played. Two games were held on July 6, one at 10 a.m. and another at 1 p ...

Generals Grant and Lee agreed to convene at the home of Wilmer McLean at Appomattox Court House to stop the fighting ... soil was coming to an end. The Civil War was entering its fifth year.

Of all wars, none are quite so catastrophic as civil wars. They arise from the ugliest of disagreements, they spill into the most reprehensible of behaviors, and they seem never to have a distinct ...

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

The Memorial Day holiday, observed the last Monday of May, started shortly after the Civil War ended in 1865 and one of the ...

The Civil War began when the Confederates bombarded ... Grant on April 9 at Appomattox Court House, Virginia. A few months prior to that surrender — Feb. 20, 1865 — was the Battle of Fort ...

His career steadily declined. At the end of the war, Pickett and his remaining troops served at the Battle of Appomattox Court House and surrendered with Lee's army. Pickett worked as an insurance ...

The American Civil War Museum at Historic Tredegar and the White House of the Confederacy can both be found in Richmond, while the Museum of the Confederacy at Appomattox sits in Appomattox ...

For generations, Americans learned the same basic story about the end of the Civil War. On April 9, 1865, Lee surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Court House, Va. In a sublime moment of ...