The surrender of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia to Union Gen. Ulysses S. Grant near Appomattox on April 9, 1865 was an event remembered as essentially the end of the ...
The Lower South secedes -- The Confederate States of America -- Secession runs its course -- A new day dawns -- Enemies, spies, and traitors -- and Reconstruction -- Consolidating the government -- ...
Editor's Note: Shauna Devine, Ph.D., is a historian of Civil War and American medicine. She has a Ph.D. in medical history and currently holds a joint appointment as a research fellow at the Schulich ...