Commission has asked Congress to add the county to the Shenandoah Valley Battlefields National Historic District.

In the early morning hours of June 20, 1864, hundreds of Union soldiers arriving through light fog on the James River crept ...

Rebecca Kinney left St. John Elementary School as a student 71 years ago. Years later she led an effort to restore it.

The New Market Heights Trail would travel through American Battlefield Trust property on which a portion of the Civil War's Battle of New Market Heights occurred.

On this day in 1861, Union and Confederate troops clashed outside of Manassas, Virginia in the first major engagement of the Civil War.

William Harvey Carney, born in slavery, was the hero of the Battle of Battery Wagner, fought in South Carolina in 1863.

Armed with a 160-year-old Civil War battlefield map and our trusty metal detectors, we set off to explore forgotten sites of American history. What we uncovered blew us away - relics buried for over a ...

The Heritage Commission wants an archaeological survey of land set to become affordable housing, where enslaved African Americans and Union soldiers once lived.