On April 17, 1865, the largest troop surrender of the Civil War occurred. While the event was a momentous one, the place where it happened was not particularly notable before that day. It was a ...

"Incidents of the war: A harvest of death ... massacred following their surrender at Ft. Pillow, Tennessee on April 12, 1864 100,000+ — Number of Civil War Union corpses found in the South ...

for a lecture, "Remember the Sultana." The Round Table, a nonprofit organization established in 1963, is one of the oldest Civil War round tables in the country. The goal of the organization is to ...