However, more civil war battles were fought in Virginia than any other state. Virginia was the site of more than 100 battles, according to historical data from the National Archives Catalog.

Throughout much of the Civil War, a key Union objective was to penetrate the South and seize the city of Richmond, Virginia ... in part because the battle introduced obstacles his men had never ...

That sentence, or some variation, was repeated Wednesday by many of those who gathered at a Civil War battle site a few miles north of Joplin. A ceremony was held at the location — near the ...

Strategically, the Eastern Theater was arguably the most important battleground of the Civil War ... as well as site of the War's most famous battles. The Army of Northern Virginia before the ...

Harper's Ferry, West Virginia (top) and Chickamauga, Georgia (bottom) were the sites of two Civil War battles. Eliot Dudik In “Poem of Wonder at the Resurrection of the Wheat,” Walt Whitman ...

An enormous cache of recently discovered Civil War letters and other 19th century documents has been donated to Virginia Tech by ... Hill, who died in the Third Battle of Petersburg in April ...

The new Civil War Trails sign on the Eastern Shore dedicates Peter Jacob Carter. The sign’s origins lie with Arthur Carter, ...

captured at the Battle of Gettysburg and among the rarest Civil War artifacts, will be a top lot for bidders at an Ohio auction house this month. Carried by the 11th Virginia Infantry during ...