Informational markers were placed Monday in the Westview Cemetery in Blacksburg and in front of Glencoe Museum in Radford, marking the sites as part of the historical project, Civil War Trails.

Virginia is granting more than $3.9 million to protect 621 acres of lands where Civil War battles raged, including two sites in Henrico County and one in Dinwiddie County, Gov. Glenn Youngkin said.

So remarkable that Loudoun County civic leaders honored him Saturday at Ball’s Bluff Battlefield Regional Park, a wooded swath of Leesburg where this little-known chapter in Civil War history ...