The American Civil War ended with the Battle of Appomattox Courthouse in Virginia on April 9, 1865. At the Varnum Armory Museum, a band playing Civil War era music played some tunes, and several ...

Petersburg National Battlefield is located in South-central Virginia. The park offers driving ... was the site of the final chapters of the Civil War. The Battle of Petersburg lasted more than ...

At the time of the Civil War, camera shutters were too slow to record ... could neither maneuver the rough terrain nor record images in the midst of battle. So newspaper publishers hired amateur ...

An enormous cache of recently discovered Civil War letters and other 19th century documents has been donated to Virginia Tech ... Still other letters recount battlefield tragedies.

On the morning of September 29, 1864, as dawn broke over eastern Virginia, some 700 1 black ... is little more than a footnote in Civil War history—a battle, scholars agree, that deserves ...

One of the major accomplishments during the Civil War was the establishment ... At the first major land battle of the war on July 16, 1861 in Virginia at Manassas (Bull Run), two unproven green ...

One of the most important battles of the U.S. Civil War -- and indeed of all U.S. history -- was the battle of Gettysburg ... as the Confederate Army of North Virginia, commanded by Robert ...

The American Civil War ended with the Battle of Appomattox Courthouse in Virginia on April 9, 1865. At the Varnum Armory Museum, a band playing Civil War era music played some tunes, and several ...