Kevin Levin hosted Mackowski for a live chat on "Civil War Memory" to talk about Mackowski's book "A Tempest of Iron and Lead: Spotsylvania Court House, May 8–21, 1864." Watch the program. Mackowski ...

Meanwhile, her age has become a topic of discussion among fans, who are wondering how old Elsa is in 1883. Elsa initially ...

February 12 marks the birth of one of the greatest leaders of the United States of America. On February 12, 1809 one person ...

Benning, a brigadier general, and his troops surrendered along with Gen. Robert E. Lee at Appomattox Court House, Virginia, in April 1865. He died 10 years later. Benning was renamed for Lt.

who had received a permanent offer to work at the Appomattox Court House in Virginia, where General Robert E. Lee signed the surrender of the Confederate forces, said. Her offer was scrapped as ...

Curators at the National Museum of American History talked to the brothers who found a relic of the 1800 Adams and Jefferson election When Generals Grant and Lee sat down at Appomattox Court House ...

The fighting of the American Civil War ultimately reached nearly every state in the Northern and Southern territories, with ...

Texas was a backwater to the war and news was late to arrive. Seventy-one days after the surrender at Appomattox Court House, Union Gen. Gordon Granger arrived on Galveston Island and delivered Ge ...

Fifty-five years of living in the Southeast during which we enjoyed lots of travel resulted in visiting most of the National Park Service’s many Civil War sites. Each proved enjoyable and ...