In this episode we discuss US President Andrew Johnson’s proclamation that ended the Confederate insurrection, officially concluding the American Civil War. This proclamation was declared on 2nd April 1866. The civil war lasted four years, from 1861 to 1865 and was fought between the United States and the 11 Southern states that seceded from the Union, forming the Confederate States of America. We look at the build up to the civil war and it’s aftermath, the Emancipation Proclamation, and the proclamation that ended the Confederacy.