Smithfield, Virginia, is full of charm, with historic homes, scenic riverfront parks, quirky pig statues, local shops, and ...

Elizabeth Van Lew of Richmond, Va., was a Southern belle with Northern sympathies. She secretly aided the Union war effort.

What landscape architects need to know. Waterstreet Studio creates a landscape plan for historic site of former jail and two ...

Letter by General U.S. Grant (1862), American Civil War, facsimile Letter by General Ulysses S. Grant with the demand "unconditional surrender" to General Simon Bolivar Buckner during the Battle of ...

Hollywood Cemetery in Richmond, Virginia, is the final resting place of U.S. Presidents, Confederate leaders, and thousands ...

The CSS "Shenandoah" only learned of the Confederacy's defeat in the summer of 1865. That June, the cruiser's crew sank 24 ...

In April, more than 200 Civil War and history enthusiasts from across the United States and Canada converged on the Andrew ...

(7) Sally Louisa Tompkins (1833-1916) Mathews Co. Civil War hospital administrator and officer. (8) Maggie L. Walker (1864-1934) Richmond. First black woman to charter a bank in the U.S.

When soldiers of the South massed around Richmond at the beginning of the Civil War, the city needed more than drill fields and barracks. Richmond needed hospitals, lots of hospitals.

On a farm in Simpsonville, Kentucky, Jake Bryan starts each morning the same way his father, grandfather and ...

Tubman's 1863 raid, which destroyed seven plantations along the Combahee River in South Carolina and freed 756 enslaved ...

Award-winning Civil War historian William Marvel looks at the seeming revival of Confederate military efforts in the first half of 1864, despite devastating reverses incurred during the previous year, ...