Abraham Lincoln wanted peace, for the war to end. He expressed his desire to "bind up the nation's wounds" in his second ...

The fighting of the American Civil War ultimately reached nearly every state in the Northern and Southern territories, with ...

Kevin Levin hosted Mackowski for a live chat on "Civil War Memory" to talk about Mackowski's book "A Tempest of Iron and Lead: Spotsylvania Court House, May 8–21, 1864." Watch the program. Mackowski ...

Robert E. Lee abandons his position the night of April 2 on the slim chance the Army of Northern Virginia might escape to unite with Confederate armies in the Carolinas and continue the fight.

New Orleans-based Liberty Bank And Trust took 50 years to surpass $1 billion in assets under its founding CEO Alden McDonald, ...

February 12 marks the birth of one of the greatest leaders of the United States of America. On February 12, 1809 one person ...

Under 16 tons of granite, a farmer sleeps with a mystery at one of the most grandiose burial monuments in rural America.

Robert E. Lee, a military engineer ... When the U.S. Army regained control of Camp Verde in 1865, troops found 66 camels still there. Five were sold to the Ringling Brothers Circus and some ...

The Battle of Cold Harbor was fought during the American Civil War in Virginia and is considered Confederate General Robert E. Lee's last major ... which was founded in 1865 (a.k.a. the year ...