As we celebrate our nation’s independence, many may be surprised to learn that a Revolutionary War battle took place in ...

On a sunny but crisp afternoon this spring, more visitors than you might think trekked on a weekday to Ball’s Bluff ...

War artifacts are typically weapons and uniforms, but occasionally something so strange shows up, that even historians are at ...

News Military ‘Prepare to die’: Civil War battle rages at Green Bluff on Memorial Day weekend May 25, 2025 Updated Sun., May 25, 2025 at 10:30 p.m.

The final installment of our haunted Civil War site series takes us from dusk till dawn in the Alabama wilderness. With Minelab Equinox 800s in hand, we unearth war-era relics—and stumble upon ...

As the site of one of the most critical battles of the American Civil War, Wilderness Battlefield has so many lessons left to teach us. But those lessons are about war, loss, and reconciliation, not ...

Next weekend, hundreds of Civil War buffs will descend on Orange County to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the Battle of Wilderness. A slate of events has been scheduled to commemorate the ...

160 years later, a new Battle of the Wilderness is waged north of Charlottesville Local nonprofit groups are still following Lincoln’s orders, this time in a fight to preserve the land of the ...

Virginia’s Manassas National Battlefield Park, the location of two major battles in the American Civil War, is facing a grave threat with the greenlighting last week of a massive complex of data ...

The land encompasses more than 163 acres that lie partially within the Chancellorsville Battlefield — dating back to 1863 — and the Wilderness Battlefield — dating back to 1864.

Over the four years of the American Civil War – from 1861 to 1865 – the majority of military casualties were suffered by Union forces. To maintain the integrity of the Union, federalist states ...