A Day in the Life of the Civil War

As the Civil War was wrapping up, and so was the Dakota War of 1862, when on November 11 th 1865 Dakota Chief Shakopee was hung for his ...

Those conspirators in Abraham Lincoln’s assignation, who were sentenced to death, were hung July 7 th 1865 at the Old Arsenal Penitentiar...

Union Lieutenant General Ulysses S Grant became United States President Ulysses S Grant on March 4 th 1869. Union Lieutenant Gene...

Doctor Mary Edwards Walker a Union Army surgeon was awarded the Medal of Honor November 11 th 1865 under the recommendation of Union Gene...

Confederate General Robert E Lee signed an Amnesty Oath October 2 nd 1865, but his citizenship was restored. On April 9 th 1865 at ...

Union General William Tecumseh Sherman issued Special Field Orders Number 15 on January 16 th 1865. As Union General William Tecumseh ...

Heinrich Hartmann Wirz the commander of the Confederate Prisoner of War Camp known as Andersonville was executed November 10 th 1865. ...

The last act of most Union Civil War Soldiers the Grand Review took place on May 23 and 24th 1865 in Washington, DC. President Andrew Joh...

Doctor Samuel Alexander Mudd who was convicted for helping John Wilkes Booth escape after killing President Abraham Lincoln, died January ...

President Andrew Johnson appointed the Joint Committee on Reconstruction on December 4th 1865, to determine which of the Southern states wer...

Union General Thomas Leonidas Crittenden died October 23rd 1893. Thomas Leonidas Crittenden was born May 15th 1819 in Russellville Ken...

Governor of North Carolina; William Woods Holden on March 22nd 1871 became the first US Governor to be impeached out of office. William ...

The Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Land was voted on and passed through Congress on March 3rd 1865, The Bill which created...

President Andrew Johnson had a Christmas gift on December 25th 1868 for all the Rebels. General Ulysses S Grant was getting ready to become ...

The 15th Vice President of the United States, Hannibal Hamlin was born August 27th 1809. He served with Abraham Lincoln during his first te...

The official end of the Civil War was declared on August 20th 1866. Although many people assume the end of the Civil War occurred when Gener...

An American Statesman and lawyer Jeremiah Sullivan Black died on August 19th 1883. Jeremiah Sullivan Black was born in Stony Creek, PA Jan...

On May 8th 1907 Edmund Gibson Ross, whose vote kept Andrew Johnson from being impeachment, died in New Mexico. Edmund Gibson Ross was born...

On March 27th 1866 President Andrew Johnson vetoed the Civil Rights Act of 1866 on grounds that it was unconstitutional. As a counter me...

John Bingham who presented the Government’s side in the trial of the assassins of President Abraham Lincoln died March 19th 1900. John B...