CHESAPEAKE, Va. (WAVY) — 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 ...

Now, 160 years later, 70 Black Union military members who fought in the Civil War from 1863 to 1865 will be memorialized in a monument planned for Rocky Mount in Franklin County, Virginia, where ...

The Heritage Commission wants an archaeological survey of land set to become affordable housing, where enslaved African Americans and Union soldiers once lived.

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.

Ohio Senate Republican candidate Bernie Moreno (R-OH) proposed reparations for white people who fought in the Union army during Civil War in his announcement for the Congressional seat on Tuesday.

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.

Rather than dating back to colonial America, the four skeletons are from Civil War times. The soldiers died during the Battle of Williamsburg while fighting for the Confederacy in 1862, according ...

Elizabeth Van Lew, a Southern belle turned Union spymaster, exemplifies true heroism during the Civil War, challenging the diluted modern concept of a hero.

Gravestones during a dedication ceremony for six Civil War veterans, who were previously in unmarked graves. The dedication ceremony, held by the Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War and the ...