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This US state saw some 50% of the nation's Civil War casualties. Now, mass construction of AI data centres is encroaching on ...
Four historic sites associated with the 1862 Battle of Williamsburg are part of the new Coastal Virginia Civil War wayfinding brochure created by Virginia Civil War Trails.
New research is shedding light on a 40-acre military camp for Black soldiers that fanned out from the southeast corner of ...
However, more civil war battles were fought in Virginia than any other state. Virginia was the site of more than 100 battles, according to historical data from the National Archives Catalog.
Virginia farmland where Civil War battle occurred to be preserved Howard Eberly, 79, said he remembers going outside after the rain fell on the plowed soil and finding such things as arrowheads ...
One hundred sixty years ago, a series of battles and engagements in Virginia between the Rapidan and James Rivers determined the outcome of America’s Civil War. It is known as the Overland ...
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.
The Civil War ended in 1865, but for Minnesota and the one-time rebel state of Virginia, the battle continues over a prized battle flag.
Virginia is doling out $1.3 million in grants to protect 211 acres of battlefields, with the shocker being that some of the money will protect properties associated with the actions of Black ...
DINWIDDIE COUNTY, Va. (WRIC) — Two Civil War battlefields in Central Virginia are receiving money for preservation and potential new programs thanks to a national grant. The National Park ...
Virginia’s Manassas National Battlefield Park, the location of two major battles in the American Civil War, is facing a grave threat with the greenlighting last week of a massive complex of data ...
The largely undeveloped lands in eastern Henrico hold several former Civil War battle sites. Core battlefields from Malvern Hill and other Seven Days battles are largely preserved.