LYNCHBURG — While giving a tour Sunday at Historic Sandusky, Stannard Preston looked toward the parlor’s front window and spoke of the “ocean of blue uniforms” that Ada, the 16-year-old ...

The collapse of a Civil War-era tobacco warehouse on Dunbar Drive has thrust a spotlight on another Lynchburg building — which now stands as the city's sole surviving warehouse-turned-war-hospital.

The Presbyterian Cemetery will offer free Civil War tours on Saturday at 10:30 a.m., 1:30 p.m., and 3:30 p.m. The Old City Cemetery will also host an archaeology open house from 9 a.m. until 5 p.m.

A new Richmond museum merging the Museum of the Confederacy and the American Civil War Center has been named. The combined institution will be called the American Civil War Museum. It will occupy a ...

On this day in 1861, Union and Confederate troops clashed outside of Manassas, Virginia in the first major engagement of the ...

Chinn, a formerly enslaved man from Huntsville, Ala., enlisted in two USCT regiments—including the 23rd USCT, which fought in Virginia, and the 28th USCT—during the Civil War.

Landscapers were blown away when they found a possible Civil War cannonball while working in the yard of a Virginia home. WHSV 3 “And as soon as I saw that I thought ‘oh my God this is a ...

The Lynchburg community gathered Saturday to mourn the loss of Dr. Owen Cardwell, a revered civil rights leader, at an emotional funeral service held at Diamond Hill Baptist Church.