Library of Congress Though the confederates had bombarded Fort Sumter two months earlier, signaling the start of the Civil War, there had ... Ervine of the 1st Virginia Cavalry, wrote to his ...

For 29 years beginning in 1919, Virginia Military Institute was host to a formal cavalry that at one point exceeded 200 ...

An enormous cache of recently discovered Civil War letters and other 19th century documents has been donated to Virginia Tech by a descendant of a Confederate general who later played a key role ...

At the time of the Civil War, camera shutters were too slow ... Alfred Waud’s detention by a company of Virginia cavalry (after he sketched a group portrait, they let him go); Frank Vizetelly ...

April 9 marks 160 years of the anniversary of when General Robert E. Lee surrendered to General Ulysses S. Grant at ...