Around 4:00 p.m., Union positions north and west of Gettysburg broke. Federal troops retreated through town to Cemetery Hill and Culp’s Hill, forming a fishhook-shaped line along Cemetery Ridge.

Arlington National Cemetery wasn’t always a cemetery at all. The land once belonged to the family of Confederate General ...

Historical evidence suggests that this burial site was used as a municipal cemetery prior to the establishment of the nearby ...

There’s something magical about standing 125 feet above the earth on a historic railroad bridge that stretches nearly half a mile across the Appomattox River valley, with Virginia’s endless green ...

Richmond officials have identified more than 700 potential, unmarked graves beneath a city-owned property in Manchester, with ...

The difference between something good and something great is attention to detail. When Civil War era reenactors descended ...

A study has found that land owned by the city of Richmond, Virginia, possibly contains more than 700 unmarked graves.

From Jefferson Davis at Valentine Museum to stalled bridge renaming, Virginia faces ongoing debates over history and progress ...

Governor Youngkin vetoed House Bill 1699 earlier this month that would have eliminated the tax-exempt status of certain ...

As Virginia’s next governor, Ralph Northam will take part in the 2019 dedication of the Virginia Women’s Monument on Capitol Square, which is to include a statue of a Confederate captain.

After the deadly 2017 white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia’s Albemarle County school system set out to combat ...

Just south of Fredericksburg, a 23-foot-tall pyramid of rough-hewn Virginia granite stands as a monument to the 1862 Confederate victory at the battle fought there. Commissioned in 1897 by the ...