The newly formed Poplar Grove and Tide Mill Foundation has acquired the historic mill and the Poplar Grove Estate, located on the East River ...

Cinco de Mayo marks the anniversary of the 1862 victory by Mexican troops over invading French forces at the Battle of Puebla. The triumph over the better-equipped and much larger French troops ...

THE SIEGE OF YORKTOWN. Share full article April 12, 1862 The New York Times Archives See the article in its original context from April 12, 1862, Page 4 Buy Reprints View on timesmachine ...

As this intelligence supplements Gen. WOOL's telegram, that firing was heard in the direction of Yorktown that same morning, if will, doubtless, be accepted as authentic, and will naturally ...

The original gathering of American militia on Sept. 25 of 1780 preceded the Oct. 7 Battle of Kings Mountain, a very pivotal victory in the American Revolution, when a rugged group of settlers ...

Owen Lanier will speak on “Big Guns in the Tidewater: Yorktown’s 1862 Siege” at a meeting Sunday of the Gloucester Historical Society. The meeting will be held at 2 p.m. at Grace Covenant Presbyterian ...

The battle of the ironclads may be the most famous naval engagement of the Civil War. The USS Monitor squared off against the Confederate CSS Virginia on March 9, 1862.

Mortars were used by both sides during the Civil War, including at the siege of Yorktown, 1862. There’s a lot that isn’t clear about the test.

The next serious obstacle to be overcome, after the siege of Yorktown, was the passage of the Chickahominy. Here, says General Barnard, “if possible, the responsibility and labor of the engineer ...

Homer painted “ Sharpshooter ” after spending two months in the spring of 1862 at Yorktown, Va., during the Civil War. He was producing illustrations for Harper’s Weekly and had obtained ...

The National Medal of Honor Heritage Center opened recently in Chattanooga, Tenn. Displays include recreations of battle scenes such as this World War I depiction of Army Sgt. Alvin York. (Charles ...

Yorktown is commemorating the siege that never happened.It was supposed to have been the Siege of 1862, and if it had gone the way Union Gen. George B. McClellan wanted, it would have been a ...