Richmond’s Journey through and beyond the end of the Civil War will be commemorated at the beginning of April with enough activities to fill a 16-page brochure.

Lankford continues his investigation of the Civil War's human dimensions with this narrative of Richmond's fall in 1865. As the war progressed it was increasingly clear that the fall of its ...

Richmond Is Burning, Again Many downtown businesses were damaged, Confederate monuments were covered in graffiti and a Confederate memorial hall burned during a weekend of outrage.

Saturday, July 19, 2025, is the annual 1864, is the annual1864 Ransoming, Burning & Rebirth of Chambersburg Commemoration. It ...

The armies fighting the American Civil War scrapped civility in 1864 in the pastoral countryside of the Shenandoah and Cumberland valleys.

The annual Battle of Richmond Civil War Reenactment, which takes place this weekend, commemorates one of the most pivotal clashes in Kentucky’s Civil War history.

Several Civil War-era structures have been discovered under a construction site in downtown Richmond.

During the Civil War, many American cities and towns were intentionally destroyed as part of military strategy. Burning enemy cities served to disrupt supply lines and lower civilian morale ...

Mobile is at present enjoying the same agony of prospective burning; but the rebels of that city, like the rebels of so many other Southern cities, have doubtless mobility enough to change their ...

The armies fighting the American Civil War scrapped civility in 1864 in the pastoral countryside of the Shenandoah and Cumberland valleys.

CHAMBERSBURG, Pa. — The armies fighting the American Civil War scrapped civility in 1864 in the pastoral countryside of the Shenandoah and Cumberland valleys. U.S. troops burned houses in ...