In June 1866, just over a year after the Civil War ended, young Jewish men in Richmond, Virginia, removed their coats and set ...

The remains of four Confederate soldiers, uncovered last year during archaeological excavations near the Powder Magazine in Colonial Williamsburg, will be reburied in the city’s Cedar Grove Cemetery ...

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WILLIAMSBURG, Va. (AP) — Archaeologists in Virginia were excavating the grounds of a building that stored gunpowder during the American Revolution when they uncovered the eye sockets of a human skull.

At the time the Civil War began in 1861, the United States government did not print paper money; it only minted coins. As a historian of the American Civil War, I study how the Confederate government ...

RICHMOND, Va. — An acre of land owned by the city of Richmond contains potentially hundreds of unmarked graves, some of which could belong to Confederate soldiers who died in the Civil War, according ...

WILLIAMSBURG — The reinterment of Confederate soldiers’ remains found two years ago in Colonial Williamsburg occurred “quietly and respectfully” on Tuesday. “We wanted it to be private,” said Jack ...

We’re taught in school that the American Civil War ended when Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee surrendered to Union Gen. Ulysses S. Grant on April 9, 1865 — 160 years ago Wednesday. In fact, reality was ...

What was hygiene like during the Civil War? By contemporary standards, it was pretty grim for both Union and Confederate troops. Confronted by unsanitary living conditions and the ever-present risk of ...