The Florence City Council will debate and vote on a plaque that may be placed in front of the controversial Confederate ...

After the Civil War, Jewish women in Richmond organized to care for the graves of Jewish Confederate soldiers.

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. WILLIAMSBURG, Va. (AP/WAVY) — Archaeologists ...

WILLIAMSBURG, Va. — Archaeologists in Virginia were excavating the grounds of a building that stored gunpowder during the American Revolution when they uncovered the eye sockets of a human skull. The ...

At the time the Civil War began in 1861, the United States government did not print paper money; it only minted coins. As a historian of the American Civil War, I study how the Confederate government ...

WILLIAMSBURG — The reinterment of Confederate soldiers’ remains found two years ago in Colonial Williamsburg occurred “quietly and respectfully” on Tuesday. “We wanted it to be private,” said Jack ...

We’re taught in school that the American Civil War ended when Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee surrendered to Union Gen. Ulysses S. Grant on April 9, 1865 — 160 years ago Wednesday. In fact, reality was ...

SEATTLE — For several decades, the cremated remains of more than two dozen American Civil War veterans languished in storage facilities at a funeral home and cemetery in Seattle. The simple copper and ...