The Civil War 150th Blog

CSS Shenandoah After the major Confederate armies under Lee and Johnston surrendered in April, 1865, the other Southern forces still rem...

With the Civil War quickly winding down to a close in April, 1865, President Abraham Lincoln began to look ahead towards reconstructing ...

The reconstructed McClean House, where the negotiations took place With his army out of supplies and hemmed in by the Federals on every...

When Grant broke his lines around Petersburg on April 2nd and Lee put his army into retreat, his plan was to keep ahead of the Federals a...

Entrenchments at Petersburg When Ulysses S. Grant received news of Phil Sheridan's victory at Five Forks the previous day, he immedi...

Map of the campaign In the spring of 1865, Phil Sheridan's army from the Shenandoah Valley rode to join Grant around Petersburg. Wit...

Gordon With things deteriorating across the Confederacy, the situation was looking bleak for Robert E. Lee at Petersburg. He had only 50...