The historic West Virginia boomtown of Volcano has come back to life – in miniature. Thanks to the efforts of local modeler ...

Around 4:00 p.m., Union positions north and west of Gettysburg broke. Federal troops retreated through town to Cemetery Hill and Culp’s Hill, forming a fishhook-shaped line along Cemetery Ridge.

We’ve just discovered a new mountain region to love in the Southeast USA; Shenandoah Valley in Virginia. Home of Shenandoah ...

The following events happened on these dates in West Virginia history. To read more, go to e-WV: The West Virginia ...

A study has found that land owned by the city of Richmond, Virginia, possibly contains more than 700 unmarked graves.

The battle, though small in scale, reinforced Union morale and contributed to the eventual formation of the state of West Virginia in 1863.

In observance of the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II, the West Virginia & Regional History Center invites the ...

On the night of May 9, 1863, a conflagration lit up the skies along the Little Kanawha River at Burning Springs at the site ...

President James Buchanan sent the unarmed ship Star of the West with 200 soldiers and supplies on January 9, 1861. When it ...

Across Virginia ... Civil War Trails marker are two monuments. One, on the east side of the old Henry County Courthouse, is specifically for recognizing Confederate soldiers. Another, on the west ...

There’s some evidence that the migration fueled the civil war there, in which 80,000 people have died. “You had a lot of angry, unemployed men helping to trigger a revolution,” says Aaron ...