The following events happened on these dates in West Virginia history. To read more, go to e-WV: The West Virginia Encyclopedia at – June 15, 1876: Attorney and civil right activist T. G. Nutter was ...

On the eve of anniversaries of the Declaration and the Battle of Gettysburg, it’s time to consider connections between the wars in York County.

Civil War Trails marks sites of interest across Virginia, West Virginia, Tennessee, North Carolina and Maryland. There are about 450 Civil War trail sites marked in Virginia, with 1,400 sites in ...

Born in Maryland to free Black American parents, Benson had emigrated with his family to the West African colony at the age of 6. By the outbreak of the Civil War, in April 1861, he was one of the ...

John James Davis was shocked to learn that the Virginia Convention had endorsed secession on April 17, 1861. A Clarksburg ...

Since 1863, West Virginians have celebrated June 20 as independence day for the state and its people. West Virginia broke free of a Commonwealth of Virginia government that spent decades prioritizing ...

FLAGS OF THE CIVIL WAR – Sailor’s Creek Battlefield will host an event ... starting at 7 p.m. That’ll be held at the Farmville Train Station, located on West Third Street, with Jimmy Hurt giving a ...

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

Virginia is granting more than $3.9 million to protect 621 acres of lands where Civil War battles raged, including two sites in Henrico County and one in Dinwiddie County, Gov. Glenn Youngkin said.

The Catherine Furnace is all that’s left of a large operation the Confederacy used to melt iron and make cannonballs.