The Battle of Toms Brook, an 1864 cavalry fight between Union and Confederate forces in Shenandoah County, was fought on land that was approved for a 122-home residential development. The Shenandoah ...
In this episode of History Seekers, we journey to South Alabama near Fort Blakeley—armed with metal detectors and an eye on the skies. While searching for Civil War relics, a powerful tornado moved ...
Shipwrecks frequently get lost, but a search for four missing Civil War blockade runners off South Carolina has come to the unusual conclusion that at least three are now buried on land. The fourth ...
Green Bluff’s Siemers Farm, known for strawberry and fall festivals, transformed into a Civil War battlefield this Memorial Day weekend. Late Saturday morning, Union and Confederate soldiers traded ...
Grim-visaged men in blue and gray marched over the rolling fields, and stern sounds and earthy smells floated in the smoky air. For a moment, America's Civil War came alive again in Hanover County.
War artifacts are typically weapons and uniforms, but occasionally something so strange shows up, that even historians are at a loss. One such oddity — a ragged chunk of leather — is part of the Civil ...
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (AP) - There are battlefields, and then there's Belle Boyd, teenage temptress and Confederate spy. The Appalachian Regional Commission is betting Boyd is the sexier Civil War story ...
Relive history as knowledgeable reenactors, both military and civilian in period costume, recreate an American Civil War Encampment and Battle in a rural setting in Hainesville. The annual Civil War ...