One might well wonder why an inland city was selected as the site of a Civil War naval museum. The answer is twofold.

Fort Pocahontas is an earthwork fort constructed in 1864 by United States Colored Troops under the command of Gen. Edward A.

Point Comfort with Fort Monroe is a world landmark to emancipation, author and Fort Monroe advocate Steven T. Corneliussen ...

CHARLES CITY, Va. -- Harrison Ruffin Tyler, the last living grandson of U.S. President John Tyler born 83 years after his ...

Every major administration official who served under Joe Biden helped hide the president’s decline — and some Dems are using ...

The difference between something good and something great is attention to detail. When Civil War era reenactors descended ...

The largest was Fort Lyon located where the Huntington ... In a book, “Army Life In Virginia, The Civil War Letters of George G. Benedict” edited by Eric Ward, there is information about ...

Centreville is ensconced in Civil War history. In those days, a fort circled completely around ... but it’s also part of the history of Virginia and Fairfax County.” Although it’s the ...

President James Buchanan sent the unarmed ship Star of the West with 200 soldiers and supplies on January 9, 1861. When it ...

In Chesapeake, the lives and legacies of Afro Union Civil War soldiers were honored Thursday, making sure that those who served our country are not forgotten. More than ...

law enforcement agencies in 105 localities — including 10 in central Virginia — have received as military surplus more than 2,800 tactical firearms, vehicles and other instruments of war ...

There’s some evidence that the migration fueled the civil war there, in which 80,000 people have died. “You had a lot of angry, unemployed men helping to trigger a revolution,” says Aaron ...