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 ...

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 ...

On May 26, 1865, General Kirby Smith became the last Confederate general to surrender his forces. Shreveport became the last major city to surrender to Union forces at the end of the Civil War.

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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

In a meeting at City Point, Virginia, three weeks later, he urged his generals to "let 'em up easy" when accepting the anticipated surrender of Confederate military forces. Lincoln lived to see ...

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, ...