1861: The Lost Peace. By Jay Winik. Grand Central Publishing. 304 pages. $35. More than two decades have passed since historian Jay Winik wrote about the end of the Civil War with a book with “April ...

The surrender of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia to Union Gen. Ulysses S. Grant near Appomattox on April 9, 1865 was an event remembered as essentially the end of the ...

Introduction : Civil War irregular warfare in theory and practice -- The Confederacy's self-inflicted wound : the guerilla war in Arkansas, 1862-1865 -- Fire, provosts, and Tories : the federal ...

From Managing Division To Re-Founding The State. By: Ambassador Dr. Muawiya Al-Bukhari The American Civil War (1861–1865) stands as one of the most consequential internal conflicts in modern history.

The issue of slavery divided the United States long before the election of Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War. After the Kansas-Nebraska Act passed in 1854, newly established states could use popular ...

edited by Worthington Chauncey Ford. boston:Houghton Mifflin Co. 1920. Two vols. 8vo, 298 and 281 pp. Illustrated. $10.00. POSTHUMOUS fame is a queer thing. Charles Francis Adams the elder seems to ...

More than two decades have passed since historian Jay Winik wrote about the end of the Civil War with a book with “April 1865: The Month That Saved America." His latest book covers the period of time ...