Robert E. Lee decided it was futile to keep fighting and signed a Peace Treaty with U.S. Grant. If you look at the picture taken at Appomattox, Va. he still had his sword on. If he surrendered like...
Texas was a slave state, and Texan slave owners wanted to keep it that way despite the efforts of Sam Houston to keep Texas in the Union. For Texans who did not own slaves, it was simply the...
Yes. General Longstreet lived quite a long time after the war, finally passing away in 1904. He was one of the last to go of the high ranking officers of either side.