General George E. Pickett, who ordered the executions of 22 Union prisoners of war because they had previously served in the Confederate army. He was not prosecuted after the war. The New York ...

General Lee and 21 confederate generals on horseback. 1867. Courtesy: Library of Congress. The official surrender document of Lee's troops to the Union Army, signed at Appomattox Court House on ...

The Union commander, General George Meade, had expected an attack from this direction and deployed his reserves into the fight. The Confederate army was able to retain control of the Rock Creek ...

the confederate forces were renamed the Army of Northern Virginia when Robert E. Lee assumed command on June 1, 1862, in a battle to defend the city of Richmond from Union forces. Before taking ...

and also capture a long stretch of the Baltimore Pike -- the Union Army's main line of communication back to Washington, D.C. (Continued below map) Union reinforcements and artillery pour into the ...