BLACKSBURG, Va. (WDBJ) - What’s now known as the Glencoe Museum in Radford used to be the home of Civil War Confederate ...

An enormous cache of recently discovered Civil War letters and other 19th century documents has been donated to Virginia Tech by a descendant of a Confederate general who later played a key role ...

(WRIC) — Virginia lawmakers are voicing their opinions ... In a fact sheet accompanying the OPM memo, the White House claims that the Civil Service Reform Act of 1978 gives the president the ...

April 9 marks the 160th anniversary of the day America’s Civil War ended when General Lee surrendered to General Grant at the ...

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 ...

On Saturday, the Virginia Society Children of the American ... of the records it contained went up in flames during the Civil War, possibly erasing any records. And through the centuries, the ...

The Civil War was entering its fifth year ... the Confederate capital, Richmond, Virginia, had fallen earlier in April; and now the once great Army of Northern Virginia was decimated and surrounded.

Readers of newspapers across America 160 years ago this week would have seen two similar headlines on the front page of their ...

A long-lost Confederate flag, captured at the Battle of Gettysburg and among the rarest Civil War artifacts, will be a top ...

The Wharton family stumbled upon over a thousand Civil War documents dating from the 1840s to the 1900s, firsthand accounts during wartime in Southwest Virginia and around 500 love letters between ...