Fifty-five years of living in the Southeast during which we enjoyed lots of travel resulted in visiting most of the National ...

The American Civil War Museum actually comprises three sites ... while the Museum of the Confederacy at Appomattox sits in Appomattox, Virginia (about 95 miles west of Richmond).

The Confederate capital of Richmond, Virginia, had fallen into Union hands on April 2, 1865. Robert E. Lee and the Army of Northern Virginia were forced to flee, but soon found themselves cut off ...

The Civil War was the bloodiest and most ... and General Lee’s surrender at Appomattox. The war took a heavy toll on Virginia. More than 150,000 Virginians served in the Confederate military ...

Although the American Civil War ended April 9, 1865, when Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee surrendered the Army of Northern Virginia to Union Gen. Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Courthouse, the war ...

The episode begins with William Tecumseh Sherman's brilliant march to the sea, which brings the war to ... of Northern Virginia flees westward toward a tiny crossroads town called Appomattox ...

George Edward Pickett was raised in Richmond, Virginia ... At the end of the war, Pickett and his remaining troops served at the Battle of Appomattox Court House and surrendered with Lee's ...