April marked 160 years since the major combat operations of the Civil War ended. The major Confederate armies surrendered — ...

Lee had surrendered the Army of Northern Virginia to Gen. Ulysses S. Grant two weeks earlier. The holiday spread to the other 10 Confederate states, with some changing it to locally important dates.

Mississippi celebrates Confederate Memorial Day as a state ... Lee had surrendered the Army of Northern Virginia to Gen. Ulysses S. Grant two weeks earlier at Appomattox Court House, but Johnston ...

Lee’s Confederate Army of Northern Virginia at Appomattox. These challenges included the pursuit and surrender of the remaining Confederate armies in Alabama, Arkansas, Louisiana, North Carolina ...

Did you know April 26 is Confederate Memorial Day ... Robert E. Lee surrendered the Army of Northern Virginia to the former president Gen. Ulysses S. Grant just two weeks prior. The commemoration was ...

with a torn Confederate flag under his foot. Library of Congress The Union Army acted decisively to press its caffeine advantage. At the end of August 1864, the Alexandria Gazette in Virginia ...

Army of Northern Virginia Deputy Commander of the Sons of Confederate Veterans, told The Culpeper Times. Graham said the organization had not received any negative feedback about the billboard as ...

On May 4, the army crosses the Rapidan River in Virginia. The Army of the Potomac meets Confederate commander Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia while crossing an area known as the Wilderness.

Confederate cavalry commander, John Hunt Morgan, launched his first raid into Kentucky. According to Lowell H. Harrison’s The ...

Plaintiffs, including Sherryreed Robinson, challenge a Confederate monument in northeast North Carolina for racially ...

University of Northern Iowa defensive lineman Carter Hewitt recently disclosed a visit to Virginia Tech that is set to take place today. Hewitt stands at 6'6 weighing in at 261 pounds. The former ...