DK - The American Civil War

he was a born a warrior, it was of the most unusual kind. The tall, lanky youth, who graduated from West Point widely respected ...

Franklin and Nashville General John Bell Hood’s daring but ultimately doomed Tennessee campaign in the fall of 1864, culminated ...

FRANKLIN AND NASHVILLE The collapse of Hood’s Tennessee Campaign spelled the end of major fighting in that state—and very differ ...

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COLLAPSE OF THE CONFEDERACY 1865 Military reverses in the last months of 1864 had left the Confederacy reeling, but the Union ar ...

n the eve of Robert E. Lee’s surrender of his army on April 9, 1865, large areas of the southeastern United States were still no ...

Meanwhile, Union armies were also making progress in Alabama. A cavalry force under James H. Wilson was striking south from the ...

COLLAPSE OF THE CONFEDERACY 1865 JANUARY 15 Union forces under General Alfred H. Terry storm Fort Fisher on the North Carolina c ...

TIMELINE 1865 APRIL 1 Union forces break through the right wing of the Confederate lines outside Petersburg at Five Forks, threa ...

amendment passed the House with two votes to spare. The news was greeted with wild rejoicing in Congress itself and by a 100-gun ...

of the Thirteenth Amendment served as moral justification for the war. The fact that slavery was no longer legal anywhere in U.S ...

COLLAPSE OF THE CONFEDERACY 1865 bit at the prospect of carrying the war to the state where the fighting had started. In the min ...

By the time Wilson’s force took Macon, Georgia, on April 20, the war was effectively over. Although less decisive than the confr ...

PLANNING THE END OF THE WAR On March 28, 1865, President Lincoln met with his generals (from left) William T. Sherman and Ulysse ...

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The Fall of Petersburg and Richmond The war’s central conflict between the armies of Grant and Lee had become bogged down in a b ...

THE FALL OF PETERSBURG AND RICHMOND Following the fall of Richmond, the Confederacy became a country and a cause without a capit ...

The Appomattox Campaign Following the abandonment of Petersburg and Richmond, General Robert E. Lee’s army found itself on the r ...

THE APPOMATTOX CAMPAIGN Lee was every inch the Southern aristocrat, in full-dress uniform with sash and jeweled sword; Grant, th ...

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