The Civil War was not going well for the Union during the first two years. The Union was suffering defeat after defeat at the hands of Robert E. Lee and the Army of Northern Virginia and it seemingly ...

11 a.m.-2 p.m.: Artillery and infantry demonstrations, between the 10 a.m. and 3 p.m. re-enactments, City Dock. Members of Knibbs Battery will conduct cannon-firing demonstrations, and infantry units ...

Somehow, we imagine that the politics of the past was more civil, more genteel, more rational. But it wasn’t. By Jamelle Bouie Before we understood what war did to its survivors, tens of thousands of ...

On three identical tours at 6, 6:30 or 7 p.m., they will describe how the people who lived along the thoroughfare and fought there confronted momentous decisions, from secession to the life-and-death ...

Confederate troops commanded by Generals Cobb and Kershaw fire at attacking Union soldiers from behind a stone wall during the Battle of Fredericksburg. (Wikimedia Commons public domain) My wife and I ...

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Throughout much of the Civil War, a key Union objective was to penetrate the South and seize the city of Richmond, Virginia, the capital of the Confederacy. In order to take the city, Union troops had ...