One hundred and fifty years ago, on May 2, 1863, during the American Civil War, Robert E. Lee’s masterpiece of the Battle of Chancellorsville, Virginia, took place. This was Lee’s greatest military ...

`Fighting Joe” Hooker had mapped out a brilliant military strategy. He’d deceived the enemy into leaving a gap in its defenses, collected superior intelligence on his opponent’s whereabouts and ...

SPOTSYLVANIA COUNTY, Va. (WRIC) — Spotsylvania County obtained artifacts from the Civil War’s Battle of Chancellorsville to display in museum near the battlefield after the renaming of a Navy ship by ...

The 145th Pennsylvania Regiment, primarily from Erie County, was known as a "tough luck" unit during the Civil War. Terry Rensel, an Erie native, will speak about the regiment's experience at the ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... At 5:15 p.m. on May 2, 1863, a doomed Confederate officer with striking blue eyes sat on his horse holding his pocket watch in the Virginia wilderness west ...

Belvoir author's new book revises accounts of the German effort FORT BELVOIR, Va. -- Not many people have the opportunity to rewrite history. Christian B. Keller, an associate professor of history at ...

Spotsylvania County supervisors early yesterday morning overwhelmingly rejected plans to build a massive development on the site of the Chancellorsville Civil War battlefield. After nearly nine hours ...