THE BEST WAY TO VIRGINIA'S CIVIL WAR SITES From LAX, nonstop service to Washington Dulles (in Virginia) is offered on United, American and Virgin America; direct service (stop, no change of plane ...

A year after the Civil War ended, West Virginia authorized the minting of more than 26,000 medals to honor the state’s soldiers that served in the Union Army. More than 150 years later, however ...

While West Virginia's main sesquicentennial celebration has come and gone, folks around the state will be celebrating the 150th in a new, high-tech way as ExploreWV unveils a 75-cache, Civil ...

Wars only tidy up after the killing ends. The accounted-for dead who are not returned to their homes are buried in orderly rows, graves topped by markers. If the site was a major engagement, a ...

POCAHONTAS COUNTY, W.Va. (WOWK) — When West Virginia became a state on June 20, 1863, the Civil War was still raging, meaning that even though it was no longer part of Virginia, Confederate ...

West Virginia Is Looking for the Descendants of Civil War Veterans Who Never Claimed Their Medals 6 minute read The three types of medals that West Virginia gave to Union soldiers, photographed on ...

On June 20, 1863, West Virginia seceded from Virginia to align with the Union during the Civil War. It rejected the Confederacy then, but the state hasn't taken down any Confederate statues in 2020.

The Civil War Trails program has placed more than 1,000 markers and interpretive signs in five states to commemorate battles and skirmishes both famous and obscure. Even though Southwest Virginia ...

A corresponding ceremony, scheduled for 11 a.m. at Lovey Hope Center for the Arts, will be a reminder that “the original cast of the Civil War is more diverse than maybe we believe it today,” said ...

From LAX, nonstop service to Washington Dulles (in Virginia) is offered on United, American and Virgin America; direct service (stop, no change of plane) is offered on Southwest, and connecting ...

Tolson, an administrative assistant with Civil War Trails, worked with private collectors and members of West Virginia’s Jewish community to unearth details regarding the 1862 seders and Joel.