When Harriet Lankford’s children were young, they spent afternoons searching the family’s Alexandria, Virginia, property, Clarens, for Civil War relics. They unearthed coins, medicine bottles and ...

A groundbreaking tribute celebrating the sacrifice of 70 Black Union soldiers will soon grace the heart of Downtown Rocky ...

Shenandoah County is reshaping local Civil War storytelling with a focus on personal narratives, recently showcased by the ...

One of the major accomplishments during the Civil War was the establishment ... At the first major land battle of the war on July 16, 1861 in Virginia at Manassas (Bull Run), two unproven green ...

“During the Civil War, they did surgeries out there,” Lankford ... a girls’ school and the mid-1800s home of U.S. Sen. James Mason of Virginia, according to Goodhart, who has the listing ...

The Army of Northern Virginia, commonly referred to as "Lee's Army," was the Confederacy's main fighting force in the Eastern Theater of the Civil War. Strategically, the Eastern Theater was ...

Lee and his Army of Northern Virginia. Outnumbered two-to-one ... effectively ending the Civil War in Tennessee. Unlike many other Civil War battlefields, much of the area where Union and ...

Virginia captures the attention of history-loving travelers. Here, you'll find Colonial settlements, Civil War battlefields and presidential homes (Virginia's the home state of eight presidents ...

The new marker in Buckingham County shares the story of Beulah M. Wiley, a Black health care pioneer who graduated from the ...

Richmond has its fair share of Civil War history, but it's also home to ... Richmond's youngest Holocaust survivors, Jay Ipson, the Virginia Holocaust Museum focuses on two narratives: a broad ...

Admitted to the Union in 1863, West Virginia was the only state created from breaking apart from a Confederate state during the Civil War and played a key role as a border state. West Virginia ...