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 ...

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (WOWK) — West Virginia would not be the state it is today without the sacrifice made by thousands of ...

Even though the Civil War has been thoroughly studied for over 160 years, new discoveries are still being made. Last spring, a Civil War-era cannonball was found in the backyard of a Virginia home.

During the Civil War, Anna's mother, ... West Virginia, at what was the Andrews Methodist Episcopal Church. It is now known as the International Mother's Day Shrine.

Civil War remains found at Colonial Williamsburg, archaeologists say. Virginia archaeologists recently came across four skeletons dating back to the Battle of Williamsburg, which was fought in 1862.

2 Union soldiers receive posthumous Medal of Honor for daring Civil War train theft 01:55. For several decades, the cremated remains of more than two dozen American Civil War veterans languished ...

The bullet in the soldier’s spine was a Minié ball, a common round of Civil War ammunition. The foot of one amputated leg also contained a Minié ball. Bones in a second severed leg were shattered.

The work of 15 Virginia Tech students is shedding light on the lives 70 Black men from Franklin County who fought for the Union Army during the Civil War.

A Virginia Museum Found 4 Confederate Soldiers' Remains. It's Trying to Identify Them WILLIAMSBURG, Va. (AP) — Archaeologists in Virginia were excavating the grounds of a building that stored ...

Archaeologists in Virginia are trying to identify the remains of four Confederate soldiers who were killed in the Civil War. The skeletons were found on the grounds of the Colonial A Virginia ...