A Massachusetts woman and Hokie whose ancestors founded Radford has donated more than 1,200 Civil War-era letter and documents left by her grandfather, a Confederate general who wanted all the ...

The National Park Service has added seven locations around the U.S. to a nexus of museums and historical sites that help tell the story of the United States during and after the Civil War. The ...

SALISBURY — The difference between something good and something great is attention to detail. When Civil War era reenactors descended upon the Old Lutheran Cemetery in Salisbury for the first ...

On Jan. 25, 1865, a company of Black Union soldiers was ambushed by Confederate guerrillas in Simpsonville, Kentucky. Kentucky was technically neutral during the Civil War, but it was also home to ...

A post-Civil War era brick kiln, likely built by freed slaves, has been unearthed in Marshall County, Mississippi. The kiln was discovered by archaeologists surveying land for a planned highway ...