Fort Pocahontas is an earthwork fort constructed in 1864 by United States Colored Troops under the command of Gen. Edward A.

Archaeologists have discovered a 150-year-old "witch bottle" used to ward off evil spirits in a Civil War-era fort in ...

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

CHARLES CITY, Va. (AP) — Harrison Ruffin Tyler, the last living grandson of U.S. President John Tyler born 83 years after his ...

In Chesapeake, the lives and legacies of Afro Union Civil War soldiers were honored Thursday, making sure that those who ...

Just a few minutes outside of Washington, D.C., a historic estate that served as a hospital and fort protecting the city during the Civil War is asking ... James Mason of Virginia, according ...

Lincoln's statement, however, did not satisfy the Confederacy, and on April 12 they attacked Fort ... The Civil War had begun. Immediately following the attack, four more states -- Virginia ...

The Confederacy spared no expense defending cities like Richmond and Petersburg in Virginia ... other ideas. Fort Jackson was the site of a decisive Union victory in the Civil War portrayed ...