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Inside Fort Tyler: The Last Confederate Defense of the Civil War

Standing in silence for over 150 years, Fort Tyler was the Confederacy’s final line of defense in the closing days of the Civil War. Today, its earthworks and ruins tell a story of courage, loss, and ...
LSU Wire

America 250: Civil War-era mansion, site of last Confederate war council

The Burt-Stark Mansion is known for its historical significance as Confederate president Jefferson Davis' last council of war ...
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Archaeologists in Kentucky discovered the disturbing evidence of a long-forgotten tragedy from the final days of the American Civil War.

In 2025, archaeologists researching the Civil War history of Kentucky found what may be two mass graves near Simpsonville. The sites are thought to hold the remains of over twenty Black Union soldiers ...
Smithsonian Magazine

A Confederate Raider Fired the Final Shots of the Civil War in the Arctic, Two and a Half Months After Robert E. Lee Surrendered

The CSS “Shenandoah” only learned of the Confederacy’s defeat in the summer of 1865. That June, the cruiser’s crew sank 24 American merchant vessels, unaware that the conflict had already ended ...
The American Conservative

The Civil War’s Inglorious Last Chapter

Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player... The late Gore Vidal once recounted how Norman Podhoretz, the neoconservative intellectual and longtime editor of Commentary, was flummoxed ...
Wall Street Journal

‘Midnight on the Potomac’ Review: The Civil War’s Last Gasp

The stakes are high in Scott Ellsworth’s fast-paced “Midnight on the Potomac: The Last Year of the Civil War, the Lincoln Assassination, and the Rebirth of America.” Mr. Ellsworth, a former historian ...