Archaeologists in Virginia are trying to identify the remains of four Confederate soldiers who were killed in the Civil War.

Ulysses S. Grant on April 9, 1865, he surrendered an estimated 28,000 Confederate troops. Many remember this moment as the end of the American Civil War, but it wasn't the last army to give up to ...

In 1898, 33 years after the end of the Civil ... war, had received the Medal of Honor fighting for the Union. The other, “Fighting Joe” Wheeler, the legendary Confederate cavalry general, led ...

Graves containing the skeletal remains of four Civil War soldiers and three amputated ... a porcelain snuff bottle, a trouser buckle and two $1 U.S. gold coins, according to the statement.

This led to violent conflict in Kansas ... By June of 1861, ten more states followed suit, forming the Confederate States of America. The Civil War started in April 1861 and raged for four years ...

We’re taught in school that the American Civil War ended when Confederate ... were finally breaking through Rebel lines. Confederate Robert E. Lee led his army out of Richmond and westward ...

A statue of Confederate ... Civil War commemoration statues—such as the one pulled down in Durham—were cheaply mass produced by northern factories, which simply switched the belt buckles ...

Many fugitives were put into crowded camps, where starvation and disease led to a high death ... 1865, the Civil War ended with the surrender of the Confederate army. 617,000 Americans had died ...