Edward Otho C. Ord was a major general in the Union army during the Civil War and commanded the Department of Arkansas and the Fourth Military District during Reconstruction.

Emancipation Day marks the abolition of slavery in the District of Columbia on April 16, 1862. More than 3,000 enslaved ...

He focused on more than 50 relics, including a vase carved out of a timber from the USS Constitution, a piece of the white towel used to signal the Confederate surrender at Appomattox and a chunk ...

By 1870, just five years after Confederate surrender and thirteen years after ... Even spread over the 30 years that had elapsed since Appomattox, that would be an average of 1,766 murders each ...

and about 260,000 of those soldiers were Confederate soldiers. The date, April 26, was chosen to mark the anniversary of General Johnston's surrender, a move which was seen as a symbolic end of ...

Rick Atkinson’s new Revolutionary War history is an unblinking portrait of wonderful nation’s birthing.