The capture ... beginning of the war, that it is associated, the world over, with the very substance of the war, and bears, as no other spot does, its "form and impress," -- Richmond came to ...

The lawsuit filed by Ricky Godfrey harkens back to the city’s infamous “Cowboys” scandal, which resulted in controversy, ...

“The New Market Heights operation was only one of several efforts to breach the lines at Petersburg and Richmond in the summer of 1864,” says Pulitzer-Prize-winning Civil War historian James ...

The Civil War was the bloodiest and most destructive conflict in American history. It began only months after Southern states seceded from the Union, when Southern troops attacked and captured the ...

That task has proven challenging partly because of poor recordkeeping and the loss of documents to fires that consumed much of Richmond ... and then he was captured The Civil War continues ...

The American Civil War Museum at Historic Tredegar and the White House of the Confederacy can both be found in Richmond, while the Museum of the Confederacy at Appomattox sits in Appomattox ...

which brings the war to the heart of Georgia and the Carolinas and spells the end of the Confederacy. In March, following Lincoln's second inauguration, first Petersburg and then Richmond finally ...