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.

RICHMOND BURNING: The Last Days of the Confederate Capital Nelson D. Lankford, . . Viking, $27.95 (312pp) ISBN 978-0-670-03117-7 ...

Richmond Is Burning, ... Lost Cause interpretation of the Civil War that “emphasized states’ rights and secession over slavery as causes of the war and was often used to further the ...

Nelson Lankford, a Richmond resident and editor of the journal of the Virginia Historical Society, the Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, has written “Richmond Burning: The Last Days of ...

In this July 19, 2014, file photo, Civil War re-enactors simulate the 1864 burning of the Franklin County courthouse while marking the 150th anniversary of the Burning of Chambersburg in ...

RICHMOND — Sheets of rain pounded the towering glass walls of this city’s new American Civil War Museum as workers raced to finish preparations for its May 4 opening.

CHAMBERSBURG, Pa. (AP) - 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 ...