(WSFA) - April 9 marks the 159th Anniversary of the Battle of Appomattox Courthouse and Confederate General Robert E. Lee’s surrender of his 28,000 Confederate troops to Union General Ulysses S.

General Lee had already surrendered at Appomattox eight days before ... The Bennetts themselves had two sons who were killed in battle before the surrender. [Image by Ildar Sagdejev (Specious ...

This is history at its best by a wonderful author and historian. Many – perhaps most – Confederate soldiers did not know what the end of the war would mean for them, their families, and the South as ...

General Lee and 21 confederate generals on horseback. 1867. Courtesy: Library of Congress. The official surrender document of Lee's troops to the Union Army, signed at Appomattox Court House on ...

Kevin Levin hosted Mackowski for a live chat on "Civil War Memory" to talk about Mackowski's book "A Tempest of Iron and Lead: Spotsylvania Court House, May 8–21, 1864." Watch the program. Mackowski ...