It would be the U.S. Navy’s biggest defeat until World War II and threatened to change the balance of power in American waters. The power brokers in Washington panicked. Everyone except Navy Secretary ...

Huff, Confederate veteran, and a graduate of the old Winchester Medical College, which was located here prior to the Civil ...

During the Civil War, in July 1862 when the Army of the Potomac was in camp, Brig. Gen. Daniel Butterfield summoned Pvt. Oliver Wilcox Norton, his brigade bugler, to his tent. Butterfield, who ...

The Virginia General Assembly has passed a bill that would end some tax exemptions for organizations that honor the ...

Legislators struck down multiple bills in the Virginia General Assembly that patrons said would prevent terrorism, and ...

The Confederate capital of Richmond, Virginia, had fallen into Union hands on April 2, 1865. Robert E. Lee and the Army of ...

The Battle of Cold Harbor was the Confederacy’s last major Civil War victory. Does it offer any insight into the mysterious ...

During the Civil War, Confederates targeted free Black people in the North, kidnapping them to sell into slavery. After the ...

Fifty-five years of living in the Southeast during which we enjoyed lots of travel resulted in visiting most of the National ...

proposing that Virginia seize what some would insist it never really surrendered in 1861, in the opening months of the Civil War: West Virginia. In one fell swoop, Virginia — the 12th-largest ...

(AP) — Current and former Virginia elected leaders speaking at this weekend's service for the first Black mayor of Richmond ...

Once the arsenal of the Confederacy and a manufacturer of shells during both World Wars, Tredegar ceased operations for good ...