Virginia is granting more than $3.9 million to protect 621 acres of lands where Civil War battles raged, including two sites in Henrico County and one in Dinwiddie County, Gov. Glenn Youngkin said.

and the Civil War (1861-1865). A total of eight projects will receive funding through the Virginia Battlefield Preservation Fund to acquire land for the purposes of permanent preservation and ...

Nick Picerno, chairman emeritus of the Shenandoah Valley Battlefields Foundation in New Market, Virginia, will discuss Civil War battlefield preservation and the role of Maine regiments.

battle. The brochure is designed to help visitors and residents navigate the history of the Civil War in Coastal Virginia. There are about 75 different sites on an illustrative map of the ...

There are battlefields ... Eastern Panhandle is one of 150 lesser-known Civil War destinations the commission is highlighting on a new 13-state map that was Thursday, pointing the way to that ...

(WRIC) — Multiple Henrico County battlefields will be further protected and persevered through a National Park Service (NPS) grant worth over $340,000 combined. The Virginia Department of ...

Harper's Ferry, West Virginia (top) and Chickamauga, Georgia (bottom) were the sites of two Civil War battles. Eliot Dudik In “Poem of Wonder at the Resurrection of the Wheat,” Walt Whitman ...