Two years later, with the Civil War at an end and slavery on the verge ... Multiple obstacles conspired to prevent the reunion that Lyles so fervently desired. She initially lacked the money ...

“To speak as the slave would, to say that we are as happy for the Civil War as most Americans are for the Revolutionary War, is to rupture the narrative.” ...

Even longtime Civil War history buffs learned something new at the Kankakee Valley Historical Society’s event Saturday in ...

David W. Blight, Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory (Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2001) Gaines M. Foster, Ghosts of the Confederacy: Defeat, the Lost Cause ...