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On Monday, January 2, 1865 the regular New Year’s reception was held at the White House in Washington, D.C. for the diplomatic corps, Cabinet officers,…
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A usually tolerate and understanding President Abraham Lincoln on Monday, January 2, 1865 gruffly informed a group of Kentucky citizens who asked to have…
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Desperate to retain his command of the Union Army of the James in the aftermath of the failed Wilmington, North Carolina invasion, General Benjamin Butler…
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New Year’s Day, January 1, 1865. For just short of four years the American people at war had torn at the very political bonds that for better or worse…
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On Wednesday, December 28, 1864 in a conference at Washington, D.C., President Abraham Lincoln asked Union General Ulysses Grant “what you now understand…
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Most Americans know about the Underground Railroad, which allowed Southern slaves to escape to the North. But some slaves stayed in the South, hidden in a place where they could resist enslavement. -
In Tennessee, by late December 1864 things were not well in John Bell Hood’s Confederate army. Marching southward from Columbia toward Pulaski, Tennessee,…
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On Christmas Eve, Saturday, December 24, 1864 David Porter’s formidable fleet opened an artillery barrage against Fort Fisher and its approximate 500…
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On Friday, December 23, 1864 a Federal fleet from Fortress Monroe, Virginia on the way to attack Fort Fisher near Wilmington, North Carolina, after…
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From Savannah, Georgia on Thursday, December 22, 1864 William Tecumseh Sherman sent his famous message to President Abraham Lincoln: “I beg to present to…
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