By Staff Reports on 5 May 2009
The Museum of the Confederacy is pleased to announce that Joseph T. Glatthaar’s General Lee’s Army: From Victory to Collapse, published by Free Press, and Charles W. Mitchell’s Maryland Voices of the Civil War, published by The Johns Hopkins University Press, are the recipients of its 39th annual Book Awards competition.
Posted in Things | Tagged Civil War, General Lee, Jefferson Davis Award, Museum of the Confederacy
By Linda Goin on 9 April 2009
Today in 1865, General Lee surrendered his troops at Appomattox, marking the end of the Civil War.
Posted in Today in History | Tagged Civil War, desertion, General Lee, William Marvel
By Linda Goin on 2 April 2009
On this day in 1965, members of the Shenandoah Valley Cavalry Bridge followed General Robert E. Lee’s route from Petersburg to Appomattox Courthouse in a centennial reenactment of that same event a century prior.
Posted in Today in History | Tagged Civil War, General Lee, Petersburg
By Linda Goin on 27 March 2009
Today in history, a story that ran in the Anderson Daily Bulletin out of Anderson, Indiana that shows the claim to General Robert E. Lee’s citizenship was hotly contested before an archivist discovered Lee’s Amnesty Oath among State Department records at the National Archives in 1970 (yes, I’m still stuck on this story!).
Posted in Today in History | Tagged citizenship, Civil War, General Lee
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