Charles Bettisworth was born in King George County, Va., on Nov. 23(4), 1754. He enlisted in the Continental Army when only 18 years of age, three years after the battle ...

Deb lived long enough to watch Trump run for president the first time, in 2015—to watch as Trump built a political base by ...

President Abraham Lincoln, with young son Tad and Senator Charles Sumner, salutes a detachment of African-American Union troops in Richmond, Virginia at the end of the American Civil War. Published in ...

On Wednesday, July 9, award-winning author Ron Kirkwood returns to the G.A.R. Hall to speak on his new book about the field hospital at the George Spangler ...

Step inside Virginia’s historic homes and discover spaces seemingly untouched by time, each preserving elegant details and ...

For Confederate Army scout with Powhatan ties, life after the Civil War was devoted to spreading the word of God—and to ...

At each major crossroad in America’s history — the Revolutionary War, the westward migration, the Civil War, the Great ...

Archaeologists recently announced the discovery of skeletons at Colonial Williamsburg – but the skeletons weren’t from the Revolutionary War.

Whether the debate is occasioned by a polemical book or a movie like last year’s “Civil War,” I consistently take the negative on the question of whether the United States is headed for a ...

A Civil War veteran from RI was buried in an unmarked grave. Now he's getting his due. Civil War Veteran George Thomas Leach Sr. was buried without a gravestone at North Burial Ground in ...

In a first-of-its-kind ceremony in Westmoreland County Monday, dozens honored the final Union Civil War veteran buried in the county, John E. Weigel.