At Cold Harbor, Grant launched a furious assault against what he thought was a tired and beaten enemy—and suffered a bloody ...

In the spring of 1865, Confederate and Union forces were at a stalemate outside the city of Petersburg, Va., about 30 miles ...

Virginia did not allow Black residents to vote until after the Civil War. But during the war, a group of Black soldiers in ...

If next year we should succeed in consolidating the three funds (about $35,000) now in hand for the building of a Lee monument in Richmond, ... View Full Article in Timesmachine » Advertisement ...

Despite the presence of almost 120,000 Union soldiers in the area, the end result of seven days of brutal fighting was that ...

Richmond, Virginia was the industrial and political capital of the Confederacy during the Civil War. Often at the heart of the conflict, the city of Richmond, Virginia was heavily contended over the ...

Lee was finally removed after more than a century of towering over Monument Avenue in Richmond, Virginia, the former capital of the Confederacy. A statue of the Confederate general Robert E.

Several of those landmarks can be found across Richmond National Battlefield Park, which captures different parts of the Civil War that occurred at or near the former capital of the Confederacy.

In Virginia’s capital, a renewed effort to ... Virginia Protesters tore down a statue of Confederate President Jefferson Davis along Richmond, Virginia's famed Monument Avenue on Wednesday ...

On this week’s episode, we speak with Dr. Jeffrey O.G. Ogbar about his latest book, America’s Black Capital: How African Americans Remade Atlanta in the Shadow of the Confederacy. The book chronicles ...