(WHSV) - There is new signage marking the Shenandoah Valley’s Civil War history at Melrose Caverns ... 1,500 sites across Virginia, Maryland, North Carolina, West Virginia, Tennessee and ...

From the 1760s until the Civil War, runaway slave ads in the Virginia and North Carolina newspapers often mentioned the Dismal Swamp as the likely destination, and there was persistent talk of ...

Federal troops returned the fire. The Civil War had begun. Immediately following the attack, four more states -- Virginia, Arkansas, North Carolina, and Tennessee -- severed their ties with the Union.