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 ...

Abraham Lincoln wanted peace, for the war to end. He expressed his desire to "bind up the nation's wounds" in his second ...

On April 17, 1865, the largest troop surrender of the Civil War occurred. While the event was a momentous one, the place where it happened was not particularly notable before that day. It was a ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

A Seneca Indian with legal training, admitted to the military only after Ulysses Grant intervened, Ely Parker made history by writing out the terms of the final Confederate surrender. Later ...

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 ...