DK - The American Civil War

After General Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia made a final stand at Appomattox Court House, he found his Confederate a ...

The Assassination of Lincoln With the war effectively won and the Union virtually restored, the nation needed a leader of vision ...

Reward poster A massive $100,000 was offered as a reward for the capture of Booth and his coconspirators. Pictured among them is ...

At approximately 10 p.m. on April 14, 1865, John Wilkes Booth shot President Abraham Lincoln at Ford’s Theatre in Washington, D. ...

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Last Terms of Surrender General Robert E. Lee’s surrender at Appomattox Court House left some 175,000 Confederate soldiers still ...

LAST TERMS OF SURRENDER The restoration of peace left huge questions about the direction the reunited nation would take. First a ...

of Tennessee. In 1857, he entered the Senate as a Democrat, and was serving in that capacity at the outbreak of the Civil War. A ...

Impeachment ticket This is a facsimile of a ticket that admitted the bearer to the gallery to watch the Senate proceedings again ...

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LEGACIES OF THE WAR 1865– 1877 Confederate surrender ensured the survival of the Union and the freedom of slaves. The costly pea ...

he Civil War was by far the bloodiest in American history, with most families, North and South, suffering some form of loss. Thi ...

establishment of a national banking system, imposing an income tax, creating a huge railroad corporation, and much else. Much of ...

LEGACIES OF THE WAR MAY With most Confederate forces having surrendered, President Andrew Johnson issues a general amnesty to al ...

TIMELINE 1865–1877 FEBRUARY Congress proposes a Fifteenth Amendment to guarantee the right of all citizens to vote, regardless o ...

A SLAVE BEING AUCTIONED The Cost of the War The Civil War resulted in a toll of death and injury unparalleled on American soil. ...

THE COST OF THE WAR The Civil War transformed fundamental aspects of the postwar South, leaving the region impoverished and poli ...

THE FALL OF RICHMOND On April 2, 1865, General Lee sent word to Jefferson Davis that Richmond should be abandoned because Confed ...

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Johnson was a complicated character. As a Southern Democrat he supported unquestioningly the rights of slave- holders. He was a ...