When they got to Quantico’s demolition range, they X-rayed the mortar, which appeared to be empty. As a final precaution, the EOD team disassembled it days later, on May 1, officials said.

The Virginia Museum of the Civil War provides opportunities to reflect upon the Battle of New Market which happened on May 15, 1864. Students from Virginia Military Institute, who were as young as ...

The museum is withholding the names as the work continues. Meanwhile, the remains were reinterred Tuesday at a Williamsburg cemetery where Confederate soldiers from the same battle are buried.

Archaeologists in Virginia are trying to identify the remains of four Confederate soldiers who were killed in the Civil War. The skeletons were found on the grounds of the Colonial Williamsburg ...