The Battle of Cold Harbor was the Confederacy’s last major Civil War victory. Does it offer any insight into the mysterious ...

It would be the U.S. Navy’s biggest defeat until World War II and threatened to change the balance of power in American ...

Matewan, West Virginia. May 19, 1920. Police Chief Sid Hatfield sits in the town square. He's declined bribes and payoffs to help protect the coal miners of Matewan but the Baldwin Felts detective ...

The Confederate capital of Richmond, Virginia, had fallen into Union hands on April 2, 1865. Robert E. Lee and the Army of ...

Splendidly mounted on his favorite mare, Virginia, Stuart took the ditch ... and unit order there was at the start of the ...

Shutterstock These Places Aren’t Just Old Fields with Historical Markers If you grew up in Virginia, you probably had a ...

Leaders of both parties honored 100 Black lawmakers from the Reconstruction era, then turned to modern battles over Confederate heritage.

Shippensburg Area Civil War Roundtable will meet Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 7 p.m. at Christ United Methodist Church, 47 East King Street, Shippensburg.

Abraham Lincoln was assassinated 160 years ago. There had been four years of terrible conflagration and the loss of thousands of lives. I have chosen to honor Black History Month by featuring two of ...

A half-century before it became a residential street, it was a training ground for Civil War soldiers ... Regiment when it entered the Battle at Ball's Bluff, in Virginia, at the Potomac River.

was one of the most crucial battles of the Civil War. The fate of the nation literally hung in the balance that summer of 1863, when Gen. Robert E. Lee, commanding the "Army of Northern Virginia ...

The Shenandoah Valley Battlefields Foundation, known for preserving the Civil War and historic sites ... and any additional contracts would be nullified. In 2020, Virginia began studying the ...