A Civil War map in the National Archives in College Park, Maryland reads, “S. E. Missouri, Country Around Ironton” on its ...

While skirmishes between Union and Confederate soldiers would continue, the surrender at Appomattox signaled the end of the Civil War was near ... that includes a map of the grounds plus snippets ...

As with any civil strife, the war was marked by excruciating ironies. Robert E. Lee became a legend in the Confederate army only after turning down an offer to command the entire Union force.

On both sides, the Civil War ... their actions in war. Some would die in battles; others would go on to become political figures in the healing nation. This section displays objects used by or ...

At the time of the Civil War ... those in the North who opposed the war effort and sought negotiated peace with the Confederacy. By 1864, coverage of the Union victories by the special artists ...

On the morning of September 29, 1864, as dawn broke over eastern Virginia, some 700 1 black soldiers in the 4th and 6th regiments of the Union ... war, would be a knife in the heart of the ...

Megan Kate Nelson, author of “The Three-Cornered War: The Union, the Confederacy, and Native Peoples in the Fight for the West,” will speak on “The American Civil War in the Desert Southwest ...

University of Tennessee archaeological students working at a former campus parking lot uncovered additional sections of a known Civil War trench ... Both Union and Confederate trenches are ...