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The Battle of Williamsburg is depicted in a late-1800s lithograph. A mass burial site was recently found in Williamsburg near a church used as a hospital during the Civil War.
Archeologists working for the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation discovered the remains of four Confederate soldiers. The crew was excavating a site that once stored gunpowder during the American ...
According to the book by Lynchburg resident Dr. Peter Houck, “A Prototype of a Confederate Hospital Center in Lynchburg, Virginia,” the 1845 warehouses straddling Dunbar Drive near 12th Street ...
Stanley B. Burns, MD, the Mercy Street on-set Medical, Historical and Technical Advisor, shares photos from The Burns Archive and an essay about hospitals during the Civil War-era.
Virginia's women's monument will include a new Confederate statue to 'the angel of the Lost Cause' ... Mathews Co. Civil War hospital administrator and officer. (8) Maggie L. Walker (1864-1934) ...
Historic Virginia Estate, Once a Civil War Hospital and Fort, Asks $11.5 Million The 3.5-acre home now has a pool and pool house and converted stables where surgeries were performed ...
Civil War remains found at Colonial Williamsburg, archaeologists say. Virginia archaeologists recently came across four skeletons dating back to the Battle of Williamsburg, which was fought in 1862.
Archaeologists in Virginia are trying to identify the remains of four ... They quickly surmised the bones were actually from the Civil War, when a makeshift hospital operated nearby and treated ...
The U.S. Army has re-designated Virginia’s Fort A.P. Hill to Fort Walker — making it the first installation to be named solely after a woman. During a ceremony on Friday, officials renamed th… ...