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

President James Buchanan sent the unarmed ship Star of the West with 200 soldiers and supplies on January 9, 1861. When it ...

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

The largest was Fort Lyon located where the Huntington ... In a book, “Army Life In Virginia, The Civil War Letters of George G. Benedict” edited by Eric Ward, there is information about ...

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

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 ...

From the American Revolution to modern battles, take a look back at the full toll of U.S. deaths in war this Memorial Day.

The other Virginia posts renamed in 2023 are the former Fort AP Hill in Caroline County and Fort Pickett in Nottoway County. AP Hill became Fort Walker in memory of Dr. Mary Walker, a Civil War-era ...

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 ...