The American Civil War Museum, which holds its grand opening Saturday, aims to tell the war’s untold stories through multimedia, artifacts, and personal narratives. If asked who was involved in the Civil War, most Americans would list the usual suspects: Robert E....
At least four of the 180,000 African American soldiers who fought for the Union were buried in either East End or Evergreen cemetery on the outskirts of Richmond. Their stories were forgotten, in part because of the Jim Crow laws that disenfranchised Black Richmonders...
It was the night they drove old Dixie down, and the American Civil War came to a close. It was the night they drove old Dixie down, and the American Civil War came to a close. After four years of bloody fighting, the war that had torn apart the United States and...