LYNCHBURG, Va. (WDBJ) - The Lynchburg School Board has ... Civil War General's Love Letters Donated to Virginia Tech Civil War General and wife’s love letters donated to Virginia Tech by ...

A Massachusetts woman and Hokie whose ancestors founded Radford has donated more than 1,200 Civil War-era letter and ...

The vibrant Virginia town was first defined by the river ... a supply point during the Civil War, and (by the beginning of the 1900s) a manufacturing site with many factories.

She mentioned Seth Woodroof from Lynchburg, Virginia as an example of how slave ... In fact he says census records before the ...

At its 20th anniversary celebration, the International Ota Benga Memorial Committee highlighted the hard work that has gone ...

“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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...