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It's a straight shot up I-81 to get to Salem, Virginia, although it's not always an easy trip. Sometimes there are land mines along the way.
The baseball programs at John Battle and Lebanon go way back – Battle’s first-ever game happened to be a 15-1 win over the ...
As soon as Confederate guns fired on Fort Sumter, President Abraham Lincoln issued a proclamation calling for 75,000 ...
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 ...
Navingating the spring schedule can be really tough! Tracking when and where your team is playing this week, en route to a ...
APPOMATTOX COUNTY, Va. (WSET) — The town of Appomattox marked its centennial birthday with a vibrant celebration at Courtland Festival Park, drawing dozens of families to commemorate the milestone.
The US Army said Tuesday it will restore the names of seven Army bases that previously honored Confederate leaders.
After trying for 45 years to find the site of the deadliest military conflict in Texas history, Kay Hindes is calling the ...
“It is sufficiently humiliating to have had to carry it and exhibit it,” fumed the Confederate officer who wielded the flag of truce—now on display at the Smithsonian—at Appomattox Courthous ...
The Battle of the Bulge during World War II, fought in the Ardennes Forest of Europe in the depths of winter in 1944 and 1945, is one of history’s greatest battles. By its end, more than 700,000 ...
Tuesday night saw a tall order of VHSL quarterfinal action all across Southwest Virginia, with a handful of local squads ...