This photograph by John Reekie, entitled, “A burial party on the battle-field of Cold Harbor,” drives home the brutality and devastation wrought by the Civil War. Here, in April 1865, African Americans collect the bones of soldiers killed in Virginia during General Ulysses S. Grant’s Wilderness Campaign of May–June 1864. Source: Wikimedia Commons Chapter Outline … Continue reading Chapter 7: The Civil War, Reconstruction, and the Settlement of the West, 1860–1880