Throughout much of the Civil War, a key Union objective was to ... Burnside's plan was to cross the river quickly at Fredericksburg, Virginia, surprising General Robert E. Lee's Confederate ...

and Fredericksburg, Virginia. There was scarcely a family in the South that did not lose a son or brother or father. As with any civil strife, the war was marked by excruciating ironies.

The wounded soldiers above were photographed at a hospital in Fredericksburg, Virginia ... casualty of a war he’d volunteered to fight a half-century before. The Civil War killed and injured ...

While Virginia has authentic 18th-century restaurants, in Fredericksburg, you should check out the Colonial Tavern, a pub ...

At the time of the Civil War, camera shutters were too ... Frank Vizetelly was nearly killed at Fredericksburg, Virginia, in December 1862, when a “South Carolinian had a portion of his head ...

Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia attacked Union cavalry blocking ... Indeed, high drama marked the Civil War’s last months. In January, Congress ratified the Thirteenth Amendment, abolishing ...

The Tri-Cities Civil War Round Table will host a presentation by Frank O’Reilly titled ”Jeb Stuart and the Battle of Yellow ...

Lee, the reluctant, tragic leader of the Confederate Army, who died in his beloved Virginia at age 63 in 1870, five years after the end of the Civil War. In a new biography, Robert E. Lee ...