Not only is June 20th the first day of summer, but it’s also the day commemorating one state’s quest for statehood.

POCAHONTAS COUNTY, W.Va. (WOWK) — When West Virginia became a state on June 20, 1863, the Civil War was still raging, meaning that even though it was no longer part of Virginia, Confederate ...

Even though the Civil War has been thoroughly studied for over 160 years, new discoveries are still being made. Last spring, a Civil War-era cannonball was found in the backyard of a Virginia home.

Civil War remains found at Colonial Williamsburg, archaeologists say. Virginia archaeologists recently came across four skeletons dating back to the Battle of Williamsburg, which was fought in 1862.

The bullet in the soldier’s spine was a Minié ball, a common round of Civil War ammunition. The foot of one amputated leg also contained a Minié ball. Bones in a second severed leg were shattered.

2 Union soldiers receive posthumous Medal of Honor for daring Civil War train theft 01:55. For several decades, the cremated remains of more than two dozen American Civil War veterans languished ...

During the Civil War, Anna's mother, ... West Virginia, at what was the Andrews Methodist Episcopal Church. It is now known as the International Mother's Day Shrine.

The work of 15 Virginia Tech students is shedding light on the lives 70 Black men from Franklin County who fought for the Union Army during the Civil War.

The Virginia Tech computer science professor is the creator of Civil War Photo Sleuth, a publicly available digital home of Civil War-era portraits for soldiers and sailors who served.

A Virginia Museum Found 4 Confederate Soldiers' Remains. It's Trying to Identify Them WILLIAMSBURG, Va. (AP) — Archaeologists in Virginia were excavating the grounds of a building that stored ...

The bullet in the soldier’s spine was a Minié ball, a common round of Civil War ammunition. The foot of one amputated leg also contained a Minié ball. Bones in a second severed leg were shattered.

The soldiers fought in the Battle of Williamsburg, a bloody engagement on May 5, 1862. The fighting was part of the Peninsula Campaign, a major Union offensive that tried to end the war quickly.