2012-12-15T18:12:23-05:00https://images.c-span.org/Files/a57/309487-m.jpgAuthor and University of Alabama history professor George Rable talked about the December ...

Few acres in America have endured more brutal, concentrated fighting than the small area in eastern Virginia below the fork of the Rappahannock and Rapidan rivers. During two years, four major battles ...

The Civil War Trust declared victory on a 25-acre property associated with the historic 1862 Battle of Fredericksburg, the first preservation opportunity the Trust has had in Fredericksburg in nearly ...

Barton Myers, associate professor of history at Washington and Lee University, will give the keynote lecture for the 154th Anniversary of the Battle of Fredericksburg at the Fredericksburg and ...

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Perhaps the Yankee boys from Company C had tumbled into the basement on Princess Anne Street to escape the rebel snipers hidden in the ruined buildings outside. Maybe they had sought refuge after the ...

Soldiers take part in a re-enactment at Fredericksburg, Virginia to mark the 150th anniversary of the Civil War battle that took place in and around the town. (Photo for The Washington Post by Norm ...

Somehow, we imagine that the politics of the past was more civil, more genteel, more rational. But it wasn’t. By Jamelle Bouie Before we understood what war did to its survivors, tens of thousands of ...