Romney was a quiet town of only 569 people in 1860 and had grown about 25% since the previous census in 1850. The ...

The Lost Peace' by Jay Winik. The most serious attempt to evade America's Civil War was probably doomed to fail, said Adam ...

He volunteered to serve the Union in the Civil War, and was an active part of a Marshall veteran’s group. But for more than ...

The CSS "Shenandoah" only learned of the Confederacy's defeat in the summer of 1865. That June, the cruiser's crew sank 24 American merchant vessels, unaware that the conflict had already ended ...

Civil War Rages On As Telegraph Road leads toward the City of Alexandria, it passes Rose Hill, where Mosby’s Raiders went to the Rose Hill mansion on Sept. 28, 1863, and captured Col. Dulaney, a ...

This story originally appeared in The Centre County Gazette. It was mid-June in 1863, and Union soldiers were on the move, ...

The origin of the Juneteenth celebrations marking the end of slavery goes back to an order issued as Union troops arrived in ...

There’s a magical moment when you first drive into Culpeper, Virginia, where your shoulders suddenly drop an inch and your ...

Foti’s Restaurant offers sophisticated farm-to-table cuisine that showcases the bounty of Virginia’s agricultural landscape. The seasonal menu changes regularly, but if the pan-seared scallops with ...

Civil War veteran George Thomas Leach Sr. will receive a gravestone at North Burial Ground in Providence over 130 years after his burial. A ceremony with a military salute and remarks from John ...

The Confederacy's Best General? Prof. McMurray, noted for his many earlier works, such as John Bell Hood and the War for Southern Independence and Two Great Rebel Armies, has drawn upon decades of ...

The National Civil War Museum in Harrisburg has expanded its Women at War ... Virginia. Thanks to her strict ... and Brown's Island Ordnance Factory (1863) claiming the lives of many female ...