Gun smoke billowed over Clover Hill Village in Appomattox this weekend, as the six-acre living history village was transformed into Richmond at the time of its fall to Union troops in April 1865.

One hundred fifty years ago Richmond sat smoldering. Confederate forces had withdrawn from the city to pursue their denouement in Appomattox. Union troops entered the capital of the Confederacy.

The world’s premier collection of Confederate artifacts at the Museum of the Confederacy and the city’s premier waterfront location at the American Civil War Center at Historic Tredegar are combining ...