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A national campaign is underway to permanently protect one of the Civil War’s most pivotal battlefields — the site of the ...
Petersburg National Battlefield is located in South-central Virginia. The park offers driving tours of the siege and bat ...
When soldiers of the South massed around Richmond at the beginning of the Civil War, the city needed more than drill fields and barracks. Richmond needed hospitals, lots of hospitals.
Date 1998 Civil War, 1861-1865 Call number E581.9 .M35 1998a Type Manuscripts Physical description vii, 216 leaves, [68] leaves of plates : ill Place Virginia Richmond Virgina Richmond Region Richmond ...
Manassas National Battlefield Park preserves over 5,000 acres of Virginia countryside and is the site of some of the blo ...
Wherever his travels have taken him professionally and personally, John Jones has always had an interest in local history.
In the early morning hours of June 20, 1864, hundreds of Union soldiers arriving through light fog on the James River crept ...
Attorney General Ken Paxton says he could “lock the doors” on the state’s legislature if it doesn’t approve a radical new ...
On Thursday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit heard oral arguments on the legality of the tariffs—a ...
At a public information meeting July 29 at the Varina Area Library, more than a dozen Henrico County officials along with ...
The first photographic shots of the Civil War were fired by a Charleston, S.C., man whose collection moved with him to Richmond after the war.
The new markers highlight the Underground Railroad, events at Howard Tunnel, an attack at Hanover Junction and a place coined ...