Did you know Richmond played host to a brief chapter in the War for Independence? On Jan. 5, 1781, 800 British Soldiers ...

Richmond history is often aligned most significantly with the Civil War. It does, however, boast a history with events from ...

However, more civil war battles were fought in Virginia than any other state ... finally succeeded in capturing the state's capital, Richmond, which also served as the capital of the Confederate ...

Throughout much of the Civil War, a key Union objective was to penetrate the South and seize the city of Richmond, Virginia, the capital of the Confederacy. In order to take the city, Union troops ...

nearly all the rest would be killed by the war's end. George Edward Pickett was raised in Richmond, Virginia, the eldest of eight children born to a prominent Virginia family. Well liked by his ...

Virginia (about 95 miles west of Richmond). Thanks to its comprehensive collection of Confederate artifacts, weapons and art, this museum is a required stop for Civil War buffs. The Historic ...

On the morning of September 29, 1864, as dawn broke over eastern Virginia ... a historian at the Richmond National Battlefield who has written several books on the Civil War.

Richmond has its fair share of Civil War history, but it's also home to ... Richmond's youngest Holocaust survivors, Jay Ipson, the Virginia Holocaust Museum focuses on two narratives: a broad ...