During the Civil War, Confederates targeted free Black people in the North, kidnapping them to sell into slavery. After the ...
The Confederate capital of Richmond, Virginia, had fallen into Union hands on April 2, 1865. Robert E. Lee and the Army of Northern Virginia were forced to flee, but soon found themselves cut off ...
From files of Richmond papers of Tuesday ... upon us. A word to the Virginia Legislature. Virginia is threatened with the combined efforts of the enemy. His great armies are making a new hunt ...
It used to be said that Richmond was not essential to the Confederacy; that it was a nominal and accidental capital; that it was not even the original capital; that Virginia was but an outside ...
From the Richmond Whig, Jan. 16 ... G.W. IMBODEN, of the Eighteenth Virginia Cavalry, was seriously wounded in the recent demonstration on Gordonsville. He is now in a fair way to recover.