This controversial April holiday is recognized in Alabama as a state holiday. What is it and when is it celebrated?

It was in this month in 1865 the Civil War ... Joseph Johnston and his 90,000 troops surrendered to Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman, the largest surrender of the war. The religious faith of these ...

ISBN: 1611215927 The Confederacy's Best General? Prof. McMurray ... upon decades of research to produce a two volume account of Joseph E. Johnston's experiences during the Civil War. This first volume ...

Kenneth, Haile, and Keir Johnston are brothers who live and work in Philadelphia. Each has made his mark in ...

The Civil War was fought in 10,000 places ... Walt Whitman called it the War of Attempted Secession. Confederate General Joseph Johnston called it the War Against the States.

Timothy Smith, an award-winning author of the Civil War in the West, offers us this look at the life and wars of Albert Sidney Johnston, the first Confederate commander in the theater, whom he ...

He was also an articulate and candid writer. He wanted to fight for states' rights, and did so eagerly under legendary generals Joe Johnston and "Stonewall" Jackson. The North had no business in ...

It was in this month in 1865 the Civil War was largely ended, and the long painful task of rebuilding the nation began. It ...

It is estimated that more than 600,000 soldiers died in the Civil War, and about 260,000 of ... was chosen to mark the anniversary of General Johnston's surrender, a move which was seen as a ...