The View’s “Hot Topics” segment was particularly heated on Monday, with several tense exchanges replete with shouting and eye ...

Irvine served in that same navy, on board the CSS Alabama and the CSS Shenandoah — the last Confederate ship to surrender, on the River Mersey, months after the war had ended. When hostilities ...

APPOMATTOX, Va . (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 ...

These are not people with whom we can negotiate, so turn to the lessons of history for dealing with non-negotiable opponents.

SYDNEY JOHNSTON, Confederate Commander in the West ... But why he should volunteer a quiet surrender, by telegraph, is not so apparent. If really done to make terms with the National General ...

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 ...

The proclamation warned the Confederate states to surrender by January 1, 1863, or their slaves would be freed. Some people were critical of the proclamation for only freeing some of the slaves.

Even after Confederate commander Robert E. Lee surrendered in Appomattox Court House, Virginia, on April 9, 1865, one Confederate army refused to acknowledge defeat and for months stubbornly ...

By contrast, the Confederate government proposed arming ... allowances and clothing… Therefore, it is a surrender of the entire slavery question. However, the question was finally settled ...

Prof. Clampitt (East Central University), the author of The Confederate Heartland, examines events in wartime Vicksburg following the surrender of 30,000 Confederate troops to U.S. Grant on July 4, ...

Irvine served in that same navy, on board the CSS Alabama and the CSS Shenandoah — the last Confederate ship to surrender, on the River Mersey, months after the war had ended. When hostilities ...