Next week, on April 9, thousands will gather in Appomattox, Virginia to mark the 150th Anniversary of the end of the Civil War. While the city of Memphis spent most of the war years under Union control, the city would play a major role as a beacon of freedom for many enslaved people, says Rhodes College history professor Timothy S. Huebner.
Timothy S. Huebner is Sternberg Professor of History and Chair of the Department of History at Rhodes College. His book, Liberty and Union: The Civil War Era and American Constitutionalism, is forthcoming in 2016. Learn more about him at http://www.rhodes.edu/history/20463_20496.asp
