Click any image below to begin a slide show of images illustrating the end of the Civil War.
The Grand Review of the Armies in Washington DC 2015
Statue of Robert E. Lee on Monument Avenue in Richmond, Va 2015
The State House in Richmond where the Virginia Legislature voted to secede from the Union in 1861 and later known as the Capital of the Confederacy
Ruins of the railroad trestle over the James River destroyed during the Fall of Richmond in 1865
Libby Hill Park overlooks the old Lucky Strike factory and the City of Richmond, Virginia 2015
The City of Richmond from the old canal at Ship Dock Park 2015
Rockett’s Landing on the James River at Richmond
Richmond City Canal at Rockett’s Landing 2015
The Confederate White House in Richmond, Va
The City of Richmond and the James River from Belle Island
One of the few surviving buildings of the Tredegar Iron Works destroyed in the Fall of Richmond
Memorial to the Confederate war dead at Hollywood Cemetery in Richmond, Virginia 2015
Confederate monument to the Dead at Hollywood Cemetery in Richmond, Va
Dawn at the Lincoln Memorial looking toward Washington’s Monument
Lincoln’s Memorial in Washington, DC 2015
Ford’s Theater in Washington DC 2015
Lincoln’s box at Ford’s Theater 2015
Confederates capitulate at Appomattox, Virginia 2015
Stacked rifles at Appomattox
Confederate soldiers at Appomattox 2015
Sunrise at Appomattox Court House 2015
The United States Capital building sheathed in scaffolding as reenactors in Union blue march up Pennsylvania Ave commemorating the Grand Review of the Armies in Washington DC 2015
The Grand Review 2015
Reenactors gather for the 150th anniversary of the Grand Review in Washington 2015
Union Cavalry pass the National Archive during the Grand Review 2015
Reenactors in Washington for the Grand Review
Drummer boys rest before the Grand Review
Reenacts at the Grand Review 2015
Soldiers graves at Arlington National Cemetery 2015
Lincoln Memorial 2015
Before the Civil War Arlington House was the ancestral home of Mary Curtis Lee wife of Gen. Robert E. Lee. The plantation was occupied by the Federal Government during the Civil War the property later becoming Arlington National Cemetery
Lincoln’s Memorial 2015
Soldiers graves at Arlington National Cemetery 2015
Old trail bridge to Belle Island, Richmond Va
Grand Review 2015
The Willard Hotel in Washington 2015
Robert E. Lee’s former home, Arlington House is now the National Cemetery
American Flags move in the breeze at the Unknown Civil War Soldiers Memorial at Arlington National Cemetery