The Colored Orphan Asylum is under siege. A cauldron of resentment, anti-authority, and racial tensions rise as the city ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

In 1822, freed Black Americans began resettling in a colony on the west coast of Africa. But the idea was controversial: Was ...

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 ...

The Black soldiers marched south with Lt. Gen. U.S. Grant’s campaign, which included fierce battles at the Wilderness, Spotsylvania Court House, the North Anna River and Cold Harbor, then across ...

Clickable Location Map of Virginia Tech Airport on Google Map. General information about United States where Virginia Tech Airport is located in the city of Blacksburg. General information include ...

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.

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

Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation did not apply to the state of Tennessee, or four other pro-slavery states for that matter.