Lee’s surrender at Appomattox—dramatically illustrates the dangers of letting myth substitute for accurate history. For ...

Downtown Lynchburg will be the site of the first ever Blooms & Brews event on Sunday while the Arc of Central Virginia hosts ...

He had moved to Appomattox in hopes of avoiding ... Watie became the final Confederate general in the field to surrender. Most Cherokee had supported the Union during the war.

“The American Civil War has an official end date, and that end date is August 1866,” Vorenberg said. Notably, the official ...

pushed the complexities of the surrender and of the Civil War era into the shadows, allowing the myth of Appomattox to flourish for more than a century. The weaponization of this moment exposes ...

Lee’s surrender at Appomattox—dramatically illustrates the dangers of letting myth substitute for accurate history. For generations, Americans learned the same basic story about the end of the Civil ...