There is new signage marking the Shenandoah Valley’s Civil War history at Melrose Caverns in Harrisonburg. The project was ...

Jefferson County, in West Virginia’s eastern panhandle, experienced tremendous upheaval from the Civil War in and around ...

Check out five of Virginia's coolest small towns in this epic multi-day road trip.

Franklin VanValkenburg of Broadway stands in a suttlers' area on Friday as he awaits the start of the 160th anniversary ...

On the last day of summer, in central Virginia, a battalion of Confederate ... weekends in Confederate uniforms reenacting the Civil War. How much, I wanted to know, does this hobby reflect ...

One of the most important battles of the U.S. Civil War -- and indeed of all U.S. history ... as the Confederate Army of North Virginia, commanded by Robert E. Lee, and the Union Army of ...

CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Historian and journalist Jim Comstock battled ceaselessly to keep alive the memory of the West Virginia ...

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 ...

Union Zion Baptist Church, which has served Gloucester’s black community since the days following the Civil War, was added ...

Lee and then chronicles the extraordinary series of battles that pitted the two generals against each other from the wilderness to Petersburg in Virginia ... of The Civil War begins in the ...

Admitted to the Union in 1863, West Virginia was the only state created from breaking apart from a Confederate state during the Civil War and played a key role as a border state. Two Nominees for ...