Charles H. Walker settled in Columbia County after the war, and his descendants are committed to preserving and sharing his ...

The officer was Gen. Gabriel Colvin Wharton, a native of Culpeper County and a graduate of Virginia Military Institute. In 1863 — in the middle of the Civil War — Wharton married Anne ...

So successful was the Lost Cause propaganda campaign that most Americans forgot the true meaning of the Civil War.

Carried by the 11th Virginia Infantry during Pickett’s Charge, a failed Confederacy assault in 1863 on the Gettysburg ... to be the turning point of the Civil War,” auction president Adam ...

IRONIC SINCE JOSHUA LAWRENCE CHAMBERLAIN LED ONE OF THE GREATEST UNION VICTORIES OF THE CIVIL WAR ... LEADER IN THE WAR ITSELF. LATE IN THE AFTERNOON OF JULY 2ND, 1863, IN GETTYSBURG, PENNSYLVANIA ...

Lee’s own pastor in Virginia was the Episcopal priest William Pendleton, who had been in the United States Army before going to seminary. He enlisted in the Confederate Army in the Civil War ...

But even though I have a hard time envisioning these historic events occurring in my hometown as it is today, sometimes when ...

Slave traders met the demand by buying slaves in Virginia, Kentucky and Maryland ... put to work in Brandon’s house. The Civil War began, followed in 1863 by the Emancipation Proclamation ...