What did the Civil War do to railroading? The changes were rapid, profound, lasting, and formed the real basis of truly modern railroading.

Even as the Civil War raged on, Union soldiers erected monuments to mark where they fought and where the fallen were buried.

The Civil War began when the Confederates bombarded Union soldiers at Fort Sumter, South Carolina on April 12, 1861.

April marked 160 years since the major combat operations of the Civil War ended. The major Confederate armies surrendered — ...

More than 160 years after Gen. Robert E. Lee surrendered to Union Gen. Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox, echoes of the Civil ...

Many in the Confederacy felt that negotiation marked the end of the Civil War. Gen. Robert E. Lee had surrendered the Army of Northern Virginia to Gen. Ulysses S. Grant two weeks earlier at Appomattox ...