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A study has found that land owned by the city of Richmond, Virginia, possibly contains more than 700 unmarked graves. Some of ...
Richmond officials have identified more than 700 potential, unmarked graves beneath a city-owned property in Manchester, with ...
From Jefferson Davis at Valentine Museum to stalled bridge renaming, Virginia faces ongoing debates over history and progress ...
Florida was the third state to secede from the Union during the Civil War. Around 15,000 Floridians fought in the Civil War, representing the highest percentage of any Confederate state.
No Union victory in the Civil War ... like Richmond and Petersburg in Virginia; Charleston, South Carolina; and Vicksburg, Mississippi — sacrificing thousands of men over dots on the map.
By then, the Civil War was more than three years ... take the capital of the Confederacy, Richmond, Virginia. (Gettysburg was no ordinary battle. These maps reveal how Lee lost the fight.) ...
Marsh III’s trailblazing career and his lifetime commitment to civil rights. Hundreds of people attended Saturday’s funeral at a Richmond-area church for Marsh, who died Jan. 23 at age 91 ...
RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC ... about the man whose life he would soon portray and his coverage of the Civil War. “I knew nothing,” Lentz said. “I had to really kind of start from scratch.” ...
“I’m always shocked at all the history that Richmond has the offer,” Pooler said. “For me, working in a Civil War park and then hearing that there’s a huge chunk of Revolutionary War ...
Throughout Richmond and its surrounding ... at the height of the Civil War. One of the museum’s main features is a large display of Chimborazo Hill based on a map that a Confederate congressman ...
roughly 60 miles west of Richmond, to learn why so many people spend their weekends in Confederate uniforms reenacting the Civil War. How much, I wanted to know, does this hobby reflect a passion ...