The clip-clop of horse hooves, the bang of a cannon and the music melodies of the 1800s were heard at Theodore Roosevelt ...

Fort Pocahontas is an earthwork fort constructed in 1864 by United States Colored Troops under the command of Gen. Edward A.

The Chesapeake Sheriff's Office donated cemetery markers at a Civil War memorial to honor Black soldiers that fought for the ...

While infantry muskets were largely standardized during the American Civil War, cavalry units used an incredible variety of different designs, with the Union cavalry employing dozens of different ...

Green Bluff’s Siemers Farm, known for strawberry and fall festivals, transformed into a Civil War battlefield this Memorial ...

“In reenacting we don’t suffer quite the hardships the soldiers did back then,” West Williams of the Federal cavalry told me ... or being an extra in a Civil War movie (which many of these ...

The Stuart-Mosby Civil War Cavalry Museum first invited the public in for a peek during last fall’s Centreville Day. But it opened officially in June. It’s a small building in Centreville’s ...

Before James Nagle was a general in the Civil War, he led a company of Pennsylvania volunteers to Mexico City during the Mexican-American War in 1846-48. There, Nagle befriended a young Mexican boy, ...