Henry Wirz, commandant of the Andersonville prison, was hanged in Washington in November 1865. His trial raised a question that still divides historians: how much blame belongs to the man in charge?
Read the storyWithin four days in February 1862, a Union amphibious force took Roanoke Island, wrecked the Confederate "Mosquito Fleet" and opened North Carolina's coast.
In March 1865, a battered Confederate army struck Sherman's column in the North Carolina pines. It nearly broke the Union left, then lost the war's last big offensive.
In a small North Carolina farmhouse, Sherman and Johnston settled the largest surrender of the Civil War, but only after Washington threw out their first deal.
