The two organizations will use the VBPF grants to leverage matching donations and conserve land associated with multiple battlefields of the Civil War: Chancellorsville (1863) in Spotsylvania ...

(WRIC) — Two Civil War battlefields in Central Virginia are receiving money for ... in Orange saw two major battles in the springs of 1863 and 1864. The site is also home to Siegen Forest ...

This story originally appeared in The Centre County Gazette. It was mid-June in 1863, and Union soldiers were on the move, ...

“It went back to holy ground,” said Newton’s wife Bonny, who began looking over D.P.’s massive collection of Civil War ... D.P.’s maps, research and other documents to the Virginia ...

The officer was Gen. Gabriel Colvin Wharton, a native of Culpeper County and a graduate of Virginia Military Institute. In 1863 — in the middle of the Civil War — Wharton married Anne ...

Lucy Chase, a missionary from Massachusetts, wrote in letters about Craney Island's 1,800 contrabands near Norfolk on Jan. 20, 1863 ... coordinator for Virginia's Civil War exhibit at the ...

There might not be a lot of mystery surrounding how the Civil War ... 28th Virginia Regiment’s Flag in Minnesota,” published for the Minnesota Historical Society, that summer of 1863, the ...

Civil War collection on permanent display at Virginia ... during their occupation during the winter of 1862–1863. ... maps, letters and diary entries by Civil War soldiers and 1860s-era ...

D.P. Newton’s extensive collection of Civil War artifacts that once filled his southern Stafford County museum is now on permanent display in Centreville at a business that touches the east s… ...