With the Union and Confederate capital cities so close together, it seemed common sense for the Union to use its manpower and ...

Civil War drummer boy Willie Johnston received the Medal of Honor on Sept. 16, 1863, two months after his 13th birthday.

The year 1862 saw the birth of modern warfare and the transformation of Lincoln's war to preserve the Union ... McClellan's ill-fated campaign on the Virginia Peninsula, where his huge army ...

The 300-acre site that is the home of the Virginia Museum of the Civil War at New Market Battlefield State Historical Park not only features the battlefield and museum. It ...