In the late summer of 1865, a few months after Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrendered to Union forces at Appomattox Court House, Representative Thaddeus Stevens received a surprising but ...

During the morning, Confederate forces slammed into Union cavalry and infantry reinforcements in the west and pushed them backwards with both sides taking heavy losses. However, an entire corps of ...

Sheridan put a damper on those plans. Saturday night, Union General George Armstrong Custer successfully led some of the cavalry against the Confederate supply trains at the nearby Appomattox Station.

Enlisting as a private in a mounted rifle company, Forrest rose to command Confederate cavalry in three states as major general. But his tactical genius was clouded by his savage 1864 attack on ...