Tag: Appomattox
From Traitor to Saint — The Remarkable Rehabilitation of Robert E. Lee
Published Date: 25 May, 2015
“The lives of his own soldiers evidently mattered less to him than his own degenerate belief in Confederate honor.” By Thomas J. Whalen EVEN AS AMERICA MARKED the 150th anniversary of President Abraham Lincoln’s assassination last…
Meet Wilmer McLean – One of the Civil War’s First and Last Victims
Published Date: 29 January, 2014
“The war exacted a heavy toll on McLean’s business.” WILMER MCLEAN WAS was too old to fight in the American Civil War. But that didn’t stop the 47-year-old Virginia farmer and merchant from finding himself…