John James Davis was shocked to learn that the Virginia Convention had endorsed secession on April 17, 1861. A Clarksburg lawyer, he was devoted to the Union and believed the decision was wrong. A few ...

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 ...

History holds lessons of things we should learn from as well as things we should never forget. The Day the War Stopped is a ...

“This is Virginia, every inch of Virginia is historic ... This core is one of the four Civil War battlegrounds included in the Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania Battlefields Memorial National ...

Todd’s Tavern, a pivotal landmark during the battles of the Wilderness and Spotsylvania Court House, stood on the tract’s southern portion, the Virginia agency said. Built in 1835, the ...

It’s not the first time Sudan’s had a civil war in the last 10 years ... The solution was to move to Northern Virginia, where a single-family home was in reach if we went deep enough into ...

TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. About the Archive This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of ...

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 ...

Virginia followed. As a result, the proud, conservative Old Dominion would be the bloodiest battleground of the Civil War—and the first and final objective of all that slaughter was the capital ...

An enormous cache of recently discovered Civil War letters and other 19th century documents has been donated to Virginia Tech by ... Lee, Hill attended West Point before the Civil War.

The "Civil War Showcase" in Harper's Ferry, West Virginia, offers an immersive experience of the Civil War era. Visitors are greeted at a replica of John Brown's engine house and can explore ...