The 8th Illinois Cavalry Regiment engaged in the first action of the Battle of Gettysburg, defending Union positions and ...

Colonel Roosevelt was an adventurer, explorer, scholar, author, historian, boxer, cowboy, big game hunter, and elected official. Teddy, as he hated being called, was also fearless and nearly ...

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

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.

An annual Civil War re-enactment in Virginia was canceled Friday after participants shared worries over their safety following the recent violence in Charlottesville.

New research is shedding light on a 40-acre military camp for Black soldiers that fanned out from the southeast corner of ...

The German constitution outlaws the former Nazi swastika and other remnants as “symbols of anti-constitutional organizations.

Revolutionary War patriot and former Alexandrian citizen James Campbell was honored June 22 with a grave marking by the Colonel William Grayson Chapter, Sons of the American Revolution.

Helen Crumpacker and her mother-in-law cooked dinner for the German prisoners of war who had labored that day in the Crumpacker Bros. orchards near Bonsack.

One of the most common misconceptions people have is that all Americans fought for the Patriots’ cause, and that’s not true.” ...

Born in Culpeper in 1780s, Joseph and Reubin among "nine young men from Kentucky" recruited to Corps of Discovery, were expert hunters, woodsmen.