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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
2012-12-31T16:01:23-05:00 https://ximage.c-spanvideo.org ...
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 ...
Archaeologists have discovered a 19th century road while looking for unmarked graves from the Fredericksburg National Cemetery near the Battle of Fredericksburg, one of the bloodiest during the Civil ...
2012-12-08T18:01:11-05:00https://ximage.c-spanvideo.org ...