BLACKSBURG, Va. (WDBJ) - What’s now known as the Glencoe Museum in Radford used to be the home of Civil War Confederate ...

We’re taught in school that the American Civil War ... became the final Confederate general in the field to surrender. Most Cherokee had supported the Union during the war.

On both sides, the Civil War ... Confederate forces. National Museum of American History Pin made of William T. Sherman uniform buttons National Museum of American History Campaign hat worn by William ...

Taking Confederate names off the sign boards at military bases is not a “woke” rewrite of history, as some in the Republican Party suggest. The biggest rewrite of post-Civil War history took ...

An enormous cache of recently discovered Civil War letters and other 19th century documents has been donated to Virginia Tech by a descendant of a Confederate general who later played a key role ...

It was in this month in 1865 the Civil War was largely ended, and the long painful task of rebuilding the nation began. It was on April 9, Gen. Robert E. Lee surrendered to Ulysses Grant. On April 14, ...

Varon (UVa) has an impressive body of work on the Civil ... general to be patriotic and loyal. Longstreet: The Confederate General Who Defied the South is a groundbreaking, compelling, balanced and ...

April 9 marks 160 years of the anniversary of when General Robert E. Lee surrendered to General Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Court House. It was a pivotal moment in American history, and one of the ...

In the village of Appomattox Court House, Virginia, on April 9, 1865, Robert E. Lee surrenders his 28,000 Confederate troops ...

When a Civil War general's great-great-granddaughter went rummaging through the attic of their old family home, they could not imagine the remarkable discoveries they would find.