Appomattox: Where America's Civil War Neared Its End
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The Confederate capital of Richmond, Virginia, had fallen into Union hands on April 2, 1865. Robert E. Lee and the Army of ...
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In the late summer of 1865, a few months after Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrendered to Union forces at Appomattox ...
The Civil War is raging – 158 years later
The Civil War was fought in 10,000 places, from Valverde, New Mexico, and Tullahoma, Tennessee, to St. Albans, Vermont, and Fernandina on the Florida coast. More than 3 million Americans fought ...
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The American Civil War Museum
The American Civil War Museum at Historic Tredegar and the White House of the Confederacy can both be found in Richmond, while the Museum of the Confederacy at Appomattox sits in Appomattox ...
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Episode 8 | War Is All Hell (1865)
The episode begins with William Tecumseh Sherman's brilliant march to the sea, which brings the war to the heart of ... a tiny crossroads town called Appomattox Court House. There the dramatic ...