The American Civil War was the first major conflict that was photographed extensively, bringing shocking and often horrific images to the front pages and into people's living rooms. Photography was ...

A national preservation group has identified an opportunity to protect 21 acres near Newtonia, site of two Civil War battles.

Gettysburg pulls millions of visitors every year. People show up, walk the fields where Pickett’s Charge took place, snap photos of monuments, and leave with some vague sense of having witnessed ...

The Civil War Battlefield Preservation Program is a national matching grants program that has been used to preserve more than 16,500 acres in fourteen states during the past decade. The program’s ...

MANASSAS, Va. (7News) — Across the entire DMV, we are surrounded by history. No matter where you go, it’s easy to find a landmark or battlefield that hosted a consequential moment from America’s past.

The American Revolution (1775-83) enabled the 13 English colonies to form a new nation; the American Civil War (1861-65) corrected a major defect in our Constitution (1787). Over 700,000 Americans ...

HENRICO COUNTY, Va. (WRIC) — Multiple Henrico County battlefields will be further protected and persevered through a National Park Service (NPS) grant worth over $340,000 combined. The Virginia ...

Two Civil War battlefields in North Carolina will add more than 50 acres with the help of federal grants announced this week. Averasboro Battlefield — spelled Averasborough when Confederate and Union ...

From the Wilderness to Brandy Station and Cedar Mountain, Civil War battlefields in and around Culpeper County received loads of tender loving care Saturday as part of the ongoing commemoration of the ...

On Dec. 15, 1864 — 160 years ago today — the Battle of Nashville began. Just weeks after his defeats at Spring Hill and Franklin, Confederate Gen. John Bell Hood again tried to take his Army of ...

Most people are aware of Wal-Mart’s plan to put a supercenter at the crossroads of Germanna Highway and Route 20 in Locust Grove. The majority of the Orange County Board of Supervisors is in favor of ...