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America's Reconstruction: From Civil War to a New Nation
The film discusses the aftermath of the Civil War, focusing on the devastation in the South and the challenges faced by ...
Redlands Daily Facts10d
Professing Faith: Civil War generals and their connections to religion
It was in this month in 1865 the Civil War was largely ended, and the long painful task of rebuilding the nation began. It ...
The Spokesman-Review14d
End of The Civil War: Confederate surrenders throughout the country... and world
Gen. Simon Bolivar Bucker surrendered his Army of the Trans-Mississippi — the last large Confederate army in the field. On May 29, President Andrew Johnson declared a general amnesty for most ...
blogTO10d
Lost Toronto hotel was a den of Confederate spies during U.S. Civil War
While it's hard to imagine Front Street without the iconic Royal York Hotel, that plot of land was still home to Toronto's ...
The San Bernardino Sun10d
Professing Faith: Civil War generals and their connections to religion
On April 14, President Abraham Lincoln was killed and Vice President Andrew Johnson was sworn in. On April 26, Confederate Gen. Joseph Johnston and his 90,000 troops surrendered to Gen.
The Anson Record10d
This day in history
1682 – Robert La Salle claimed the lower Mississippi River and all lands that touch it for France. 1770 – Captain James Cook discovered Botany Bay on the Australian continent. 1833 – Peterborough, NH, ...
The New Yorker22h
Was the Civil War Inevitable?
Before Lincoln turned the idea of “the Union” into a cause worth dying for, he tried other means of ending slavery in America ...
Smithsonian Magazine5d
The Trial of the Century That Wasn’t
The ex-Confederate president was released 150 ... Serious people believed he had a chance of winning. President Andrew Johnson took no chances. On Christmas Day 1868, he pardoned former ...