A visit to a battle reenactment in rural Virginia revealed some surprising views about U.S. politics—and broad pessimism ...

The present city of Richmond was founded in 1737. During the American Civil War, Richmond served as the capital of the Confederate States of America. The city entered the 20th century with one of ...

The timber support beams that held soon-to-be Virginia Commonwealth University ... On March 26, 2004, Richmond witnessed the worst three-alarm fire it had seen since its surrender to the Union ...

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. The Historic ...

Richmond has its fair share of Civil War history, but it's also home to a moving and impressive Holocaust museum. Founded in 1997 by one of Richmond's youngest Holocaust survivors, Jay Ipson, the ...

At the time of the Civil War, camera shutters ... During the Peninsular Campaign in Virginia—Gen. George B. McClellan’s initial, unsuccessful assault on Richmond in the summer of 1862 ...

nearly all the rest would be killed by the war's end. George Edward Pickett was raised in Richmond, Virginia, the eldest of eight children born to a prominent Virginia family. Well liked by his ...

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.

As the Civil War raged in America, a group of slave catchers caught up with Leroy Lee, who had fled slavery to Cincinnati. They took him east to New Richmond ... from West Virginia all the ...

West Virginia & Wisconsin remain in Civil War's United States. The government has been taken over by a three-term President, ...

Manassas National Battlefield Park preserves over 5,000 acres of Virginia countryside and is the site of some of the bloodiest fighting in the American Civil War. The first major ... Confederates at ...