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 ...

After four long and bloody years, the American Civil War ... at Appomattox Court House was a hard experience. We had raced to that point,” prepared to fight on and instead found Lee’s surrender.

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 ...

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 major Confederate armies surrendered---and the postwar healing immediately began. At Appomattox, where Robert E. Lee ...

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 ...

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