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After four years of bloody fighting, the war that had torn apart the United States and Virginia finally reached its conclusion in the commonwealth. In one of the most eventful and fateful months in American history, April 1865 would see the fall of Richmond to Union troops, Gen. Robert E. Lee's surrender at Appomattox Court House, the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln and the end of the Confederacy, the Civil War and slavery.

RICHMOND, Va. - Del. Kaye Kory, D-Fairfax, accepted the American Association of University Professors' Michael S. Harris Award on Thursday for her "exemplary service in support of higher education." The award is presented each year in memory of Col. Harris, who served as president of the Virginia Conference of the AAUP.