The CSS "Shenandoah" only learned of the Confederacy's defeat in the summer of 1865. That June, the cruiser's crew sank 24 ...

Confederate general Robert E. Lee surrenders to Union general Ulysses S. Grant at the Appomattox Court House on April 9, 1865 in this painting, titled "Let Us Have Peace" by Jean Leon Gerome Ferris.

The first Juneteenth was held in Galveston the next year. Celebrations were low-key affairs, often kept to church gatherings ...

Juneteenth is the oldest nationally celebrated commemoration of the ending of slavery in the United States. Here's some of ...

Total war against civilians didn't begin with World War II. It was official policy of the Union during the Civil War to lay ...

There was a time when the name “Walter Gorthy” was well known in the Cadillac area because of the incredible role he played ...

The sign shown in the cartoon topping this post is the actual signage now appearing in National Parks that reads like it ...

The walk is a symbolic gesture recognizing the 2 1/2 years it took for news of freedom to reach enslaved people in Texas ...

Union troops reached Galveston, Texas, carrying with them orders that all enslaved people were now free. For decades, marking ...

Grant, Ulysses S (Ulysses Simpson) 1822-1885 Lee, Robert E (Robert Edward) 1807-1870 United States Army Notes Includes index. Date 1988 1988, c1987 Civil War, 1861-1865 To 1900 Call number CT275.G76 ...