The military records show that Melvin Bean, Samuel Blalock, John Burns, Albert D.J. Cashier, Lyons Wakeman and Frank Thompson fought on American battlefields during the Civil War. Research shows ...

Robert E. Lee surrendered at Appomattox Court House on April 9, 1865. Elsewhere in the country, parts of the rebel army ...

A Massachusetts woman and Hokie whose ancestors founded Radford has donated more than 1,200 Civil War-era letter and ...

Abraham Lincoln wanted peace, for the war to end. He expressed his desire to "bind up the nation's wounds" in his second ...

Few countries buffet and shine their historical landmarks and dates with the pride and precision of the United States. The artefacts and documents and battle sites of the civil war are so ...