Strategically, the Eastern Theater was arguably the most important battleground of the Civil War; comprising the states of Virginia ... did not share a common uniform or pattern of speech.

During the bloody years when the Civil War tore apart the United States, one place remained whole: a symbol of America's early promise and future hope. Mount Vernon, the Virginia home of George ...

A Massachusetts woman and Hokie whose ancestors founded Radford has donated more than 1,200 Civil War-era letter and ...

The Defense Department efforts to purge civil ... in Virginia, but relocated to Massachusetts where he joined the Union Army’s first official Black unit in 1863. His finest hour in uniform ...