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

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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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

The Florence City Council voted Tuesday evening on whether or not to place a marker in front of a controversial Confederate ...