“All these dark elements describe the margins not the mainstream of Civil War experience,” says Gary Gallagher, a historian at the University of Virginia who has authored and edited over 30 ...

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One of the major accomplishments during the Civil War was the establishment ... At the first major land battle of the war on July 16, 1861 in Virginia at Manassas (Bull Run), two unproven green ...

Ulysses S Grant was the biggest hero of the Civil War ... the horrors of war, at places such as Fort Wagner, South Carolina, and Saltville and Petersburg, both in Virginia.

RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — The Virginia War Memorial Foundation has announced a multi-year program dedicated to providing a venue ...

The South’s Army of Northern Virginia was in its final hours ... ever fought on American soil was coming to an end. The Civil War was entering its fifth year. Nothing in America’s experience ...

The Wharton family stumbled upon over a thousand Civil War documents dating from the 1840s to the 1900s, firsthand accounts during wartime in Southwest Virginia and around 500 love letters between ...