(© josephsjacobs – stock.adobe.com) Virginia is doling out $1.3 million in grants to protect 211 acres of battlefields, with the shocker being that some of the money will protect properties ...

Two Civil War battlefields in and around Northern Virginia have been named to Preservation Virginia's 2025 list of the state's most endangered historic places, with the nonprofit citing the ...

Virginia is granting more than $3.9 million to protect 621 acres of lands where Civil War battles raged, including two sites in Henrico County and one in Dinwiddie County.

Home Virginia battlefields receive $4M in grants to protect land across the state. Government, Virginia. ... (1775- 1783), the War of 1812 and the Civil War (1861-1865). ...

May 1864 was one of the bloodiest months in U.S. military history, with three major Civil War battles – each involving more than 100,000 engaged forces – taking place in northern Virginia and ...

LEWISTON — The Androscoggin Historical Society plans to host an expert on Civil War battlefields at its next “A Quiet Conversation about Maine Civil War Soldiers,” scheduled for 6 p.m ...

These battlefields, which span nearly 150 acres across Henrico, were important sites during the Civil War. Here’s the breakdown of how the money will be used: $132,077.41 to preserve 11.72 acres ...

Co-introduced by U.S. senators Tim Kaine of Virginia and Cindy Hyde-Smith of Mississippi, the American Battlefield Protection Program Enhancement Act is bipartisan legislation that would protect hi… ...

At the first major land battle of the war on July 16, 1861 in Virginia at Manassas (Bull Run), two unproven green armies met and effectively slaughtered each other. The North suffered 2,700 ...