WILLIAMSBURG, Va. (AP) — Archaeologists in Virginia were excavating the grounds of a building that stored gunpowder during the American Revolution when they uncovered the eye sockets of a human ...

The Black soldiers marched south with Lt. Gen. U.S. Grant’s campaign, which included fierce battles at the Wilderness, Spotsylvania Court House, the North Anna River and Cold Harbor, then across ...

Archaeologists found 4 Civil War Confederate soldiers' remains in Williamsburg. Believed to have died in 1862, they were reburied this week at a local cemetery.

Archaeologists in Virginia are trying to identify the remains of four Confederate soldiers who were killed in the Civil War.

This story originally appeared in The Centre County Gazette. It was mid-June in 1863, and Union soldiers were on the move, ...

More than 700,000 Southerners — white and black — fled from or toward advancing armies during the Civil War in search of safety or freedom, disrupting their lives and the lives of those who ...

Civil War 150th: Flood of refugees ... Talkov is head of program development and coordinator for Virginia's Civil War exhibit at the Virginia Historical ... the Peninsula Campaign in 1862 meant ...

Newspaper articles from the late 19th century and early 20th century reference people who died in the Civil War being buried there. Maps also show a cemetery existing in that spot in 1876, after ...

The Joe Biden scandal set off a Democratic civil war — that will tear the party to pieces By . ... Virginia, U.S., January 16, ... who has announced his own campaign for the governor’s mansion ...

The stunning success of Zohran Mamdani, a 33-year-old self-described democratic socialist, in the race for New York City ...

As ceremonies, festivals and parades to commemorate the 250th anniversary of the start of the Revolutionary War and ...

The Navy says it conducted its first resupply mission at sea in fall 2024, while operating in the Virginia Capes ... The USS Chancellorsville — named for the Civil War battle — was renamed the USS ...