Was the cause of Confederate defeat external, or internal? Those who emphasize internal causes attribute the failure to breakdowns in Confederate leadership, both political and military ...

In some states, Grant deployed troops to maintain order and guarantee that African Americans and their Republican allies ...

(Continued below map) In the vicinity of Cemetery Hill, Confederate forces attempt to attack south to break the Union center. After initial, small gains, Union reserves and heavy artillery ...

Since the immediate aftermath of the American Civil War, the United States has been plagued with its violent consequences.Following the Civil War, there was a rise of neo-Confederate hate groups who ...

Heartbroken over the Confederacy’s defeat, he was one of the last officers to lead his men to the surrender ceremony in 1865.” Some Army posts in the South, as well as streets and buildings on ...

Stanton to discuss Black Americans’ new life of emancipation with the Confederacy nearly defeated. What came from that discussion was Special Field Order No. 15, commonly known as “40 acres ...

I served at Bragg. It breaks a generational link.” The fort’s namesake, Braxton Bragg, was an often-defeated Confederate civil war general who enslaved 105 Black Americans on his sugar ...

Foster, Ghosts of the Confederacy: Defeat, the Lost Cause, and the Emergence of the New South, 1865 to 1913 (New York: Oxford University Press, 1987) David Goldfield, Still Fighting the Civil War ...

After intense fighting among the rocks and trees throughout the day and evening, no Confederate breakthrough occurs in the south. (Continued below map) In the north, Confederate forces attempt to ...

Foster, Ghosts of the Confederacy: Defeat, the Lost Cause, and the Emergence of the New South, 1865 to 1913 (New York: Oxford University Press, 1987) David Goldfield, Still Fighting the Civil War ...