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

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Standing proudly on B Street, Piper’s Opera House represents the sophisticated side of Virginia City’s boomtown days. This ...

Virginia City, Nevada isn’t just preserved—it’s alive, breathing stories through weathered wooden storefronts and whispering secrets down streets that have witnessed everything from silver-fueled ...

Nearly forty years ago National Parks Service historian Chris Calkins wrote a two-volume work on the Battle of Appomattox and its aftermath. In 2023 Savas Beatie issued a revised edition of the first ...

maps, notes ... Johnston's experiences during the Civil War. This first volume deals with Johnston's activities during the first two years of the war, and comprises two "books", one on Johnston's role ...

Anna Jarvis was born in 1864 in West Virginia. She was one of her mother's more than 12 children -- though most died from diseases like measles. During the Civil War, Anna's mother, Ann Maria ...

a strategic Civil War location, and finally to a thriving late-19th-century industrial center, there’s much to see. Here’s to an unforgettable experience. This remarkable confluence establishes ...

But keeping order was never easy in the territorial West ... Whipple was killed in Virginia at the Battle of Chancellorsville, the last major conflict of the Civil War, in 1862.

Kennesaw Mountain in Georgia was the site of a major battle during the Atlanta Campaign in June of 1864 — a battle won by the ... near Petersburg Virginia, at the end of the Civil War. Petersburg was ...

Gen. Jubal Early of the Confederate States Army, at least for a little while that day, it must have seemed that the war was young again. In the noonday heat of July 11, 1864, the commander of the ...

Lee’s own pastor in Virginia was the Episcopal priest William Pendleton, who had been in the United States Army before going to seminary. He enlisted in the Confederate Army in the Civil War ...