Even Memorial Day was founded with the Civil War in mind. States gave out their own medals too. In fact, West Virginia is still giving them out. In 1866, the West Virginia legislature passed a ...

As statues of Confederate generals have been toppled or ordered down across the American South, all still stand in West Virginia, the only state born out of the American Civil War. One hundred ...

A year after the Civil War ended, West Virginia authorized the minting of more than 26,000 medals to honor the state’s soldiers that served in the Union Army. More than 150 years later ...

A small town lawyer from West Virginia was in for an extraordinary ... of artifacts belonging to the previous owners from a Civil War-era mourning dress, to 18th century Spanish silver coins ...

Tolson, an administrative assistant with Civil War Trails, worked with private collectors and members of West Virginia’s Jewish community to unearth details regarding the 1862 seders and Joel.

“(June 20) is West Virginia’s anniversary. West Virginia became a state during the Civil War … so that’s why we kind of do it, to celebrate West Virginia Day as well as previous history.