Confederate soldiers stand defiant before a Union general, even after the war is over. Winslow Homer, Prisoners from the Front, 1866. Courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of Mrs. Frank ...

Generals Ulysses S. Grant (Union) and Robert E. Lee (Confederacy) sat in these chairs to negotiate the terms of surrender to end the Civil War on April 9, 1865, at Wilmer McLean’s home in ...

In most key aspects of the American Civil War ... (Here is a look at what the U.S. Army’s uniform looked like in every war since 1775.) ... > New York’s official side in the Civil War: Union.