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.

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

Petersburg National Battlefield is located in South-central Virginia. The park offers driving tours of the siege and bat ...

Manassas National Battlefield Park preserves over 5,000 acres of Virginia countryside and is the site of some of the blo ...

Wikimedia Commons/Christophe cagé The First Shot of the Civil War at Fort Sumter Confederate Lieutenant Henry S. Farley pulled the trigger of a large cannon at Fort Sumter at 4:30 a.m. on April 12, ...

Wikimedia Commons/Ser Amantio di Nicolao The Slave Pen of 1820s Alexandria, Virginia A brick building at 1315 Duke Street in ...

Vicksburg National Military Park in Mississippi is receiving over $5 million toward restoring a key Civil War monument and removing a building that previously was used as a visitors’ center.

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.