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Danville, VA – The City of Danville played an incredibly important role in the Civil War. It served as the last capital of the Confederacy and was one of the few southern cities with access to a rail line. But something you may not know is the city’s history that’s worth digging for. Danville’s...
150 years ago, part of history was written right in our own backyard. “When you think of the Civil War, you think of Virginia and South Carolina, you don’t think of Elmira, NY. But it had a big impact on this community and that state,” said Bob Roe of the Chemung Valley Living History...
Did you know that the first Memorial Dayin America was held in the South in honor of both the soldiers of Union Blue and Confederate Gray? Some folks call the War Between the States, 1861-1865, a lost cause but stories of the heroic- brave men and women who stood for Southern Independence...
WASHINGTON — John Douglass has been a top officer in the U.S. Navy, a longtime defense lobbyist and is now a veteran Civil War reenactor. Most of that pedigree boosted his standing in the Virginia Democratic Party, and elevated him to the top of the field in a hotly contested congressional race this year....
Our country is entering year two of the Civil War Sesquicentennial, and many Americans still have a deep interest in the events—and people—connected with that conflict. The National Park Service has launched anew Civil War website that provides a wealth of information and useful tools for both exploring and learning. “More than a quarter of...
He’d already survived Vicksburg, even found himself a bride there. But 25-year-old Confederate Capt. James P. Burem wouldn’t live through 1864. The Hawkins County native was killed in the June 1864 Battle of the Piedmont not far from Staunton, Va. His body was never returned to his father’s farm on the banks of the...
The Portsmouth, Va., City Council postponed action on a proposal to designate May as a month to honor those who backed the Union during the Civil War. The Portsmouth History Commission has already designated May as “Southern Unionist History Month,” The (Norfolk) Virginian-Pilot reported. History Commissioner Greg Eatroff, who moved to Virginia from New...
When the Museum of the Confederacy in Appomattox welcomes its first visitors next week, 15 flags will fly in front of the building. The permanent display will feature flags from every southern state and southern supporter. Even the American stars and stripes will fly, but not a Confederate flag. “That flag represents the veterans...
Saturday, March 8, 1862, was an unusually mild day in the great harbor of Hampton Roads, Va., with its access to the port of Norfolk, the huge navy yard at Gosport, and the mouth of the James River which led to the Confederate capital at Richmond. Crews of the Union’s North Atlantic Blockading Squadron...
The old photograph shows a young Confederate soldier posing proudly in an elegant uniform, with a pistol in his belt and a saber in his hand. It is a well-known 1860s ambrotype worth thousands of dollars, and experts have identified the style of his buckle, the make of his revolver and the cavalry outfit...
