RICHMOND, Va. — Governor Glenn Youngkin ordered that both American flags and Virginia state flags be flown at half-staff on ...

After beginning his career as a civil rights lawyer, he helped usher in an era of African American leadership in the former ...

A park ranger for Fort Harrison in Henrico didn't know his acting experience would come into play when he started the job.

Virginia (about 95 miles west of Richmond). Thanks to its comprehensive collection of Confederate artifacts, weapons and art, this museum is a required stop for Civil War buffs. American Civil War ...

George Edward Pickett was raised in Richmond ... in battle during the Mexican-American War and on the frontier, along the Texas border and in Washington Territory. When Virginia seceded from ...

Henry Marsh, a longtime Virginia lawmaker and first Black mayor of Richmond, has died. He served as Richmond mayor from 1977 ...

Throughout much of the Civil War, a key Union objective was to penetrate the South and seize the city of Richmond, Virginia ... such as this was uncommon during the Civil War.

On the morning of September 29, 1864, as dawn broke over eastern Virginia ... a historian at the Richmond National Battlefield who has written several books on the Civil War.

"It was said during the American Civil War that there were more Confederate flags flying here than in Richmond, Virginia — and Richmond was the capital of the Confederacy," Westgaph told CNN.

Richmond history is often aligned most significantly with the Civil War ... Revolutionary War. The weekend’s events included explanations of women and Native Americans during the Revolution ...