The Civil War officially ended on Aug. 20, 1866, but Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrendered his army 16 months earlier on April 9, 1865.

Unlike his Civil War counterpart, the mayor, Bill Althaus, refused to surrender the city. York, thus, acknowledged this difficult moment that had been suppressed for much of the 20th century.

The Civil War had begun. Immediately following the attack, four more states -- Virginia, Arkansas, North Carolina, ... 1865, the Civil War ended with the surrender of the Confederate army.

O n April 17, 1865, the largest troop surrender of the Civil War occurred. While the event was a momentous one, the place where it happened was not particularly notable before that day.

The second of two columns focusing on the surrender of York to the Confederates in late-June 1863 – a pivotal moment in York County’s story.

Scott and I will discuss our findings and other issues about the surrender of York as part of the York County History Center-sponsored, activity-packed Civil War Day starting at 10 a.m., July 20 ...

Lee’s defeat and surrender were key contributors to the end of the Civil War, but the official end of the war did not come until 16 months later because Confederate President Jefferson Davis ...

The CSS "Shenandoah" only learned of the Confederacy's defeat in the summer of 1865. That June, the cruiser's crew sank 24 ...

From the start of the war in April 1861, with the Confederate attack on Fort Sumter, until General Robert E. Lee’s surrender at Appomattox four years later, over 620,000 people were killed ...

(This is the second of two columns focusing on the surrender of York to the Confederates in late-June 1863 – a pivotal moment in York County’s story. Civil War historian Scott Mingus served as ...