A Nation Torn Asunder: Last Days of the Civil War, January to April 1865

In the 150th anniversary of the end of the greatest struggle in U.S. military history, it is appropriate to look back at the last few months of the US Civil War in Virginia as the Union forces under General Ulysses S. Grant besieged and eventually captured the South’s capital of Richmond. The loss of Richmond forced Confederate General Robert E. Lee to retreat west in hopes of joining with forces in North Carolina for a last desperate attempt to save the Confederacy. It was not to be.

Cornered, outmanned, outgunned and with a starving remnant of the once victorious Army of Northern Virginia, Lee surrendered his force at the tiny village of Appomattox, an act that effectively ended the Civil War.

Professor Stan Carpenter of the US Naval War College in Newport, Rhode Island will present a lecture on the events of early 1865 as the Civil War came to a close.

The public is cordially invited. Refreshments will be served.
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