Did you know that the first Union casualty in the American Civil War is buried in West Virginia? So, according to the ...

How much do you know about female spies? What about female spies of the American Civil War? Figures like Rose O’Neal Greenhow and Elizabeth Van Lew often come to mind when this topic is brought up, ...

Strategically, the Eastern Theater was arguably the most important battleground of the Civil War; comprising the states of Virginia, West Virginia Maryland, Pennsylvania, and the District of ...

Admitted to the Union in 1863, West Virginia was the only state created from breaking apart from a Confederate state during the Civil War and played a key role as a border state. West Virginia ...

The next regular meeting of the Civil War Round Table of the Mid-Ohio Valley will be 7 p.m. Sept. 19 at the Blennerhassett Museum of Regional History, 137 Juliana St., Parkersburg. The presentation ...

A Clarke County slave who risked his life to help the Union Army during the Civil War will finally receive the recognition he ...

Perhaps the most well-known destination in West Virginia, Harpers Ferry is more than a quaint 19th-century town. It's a National Historic Park with Civil War sites including battlefields ...

(Photo courtesy of WV Legislative Photography) CHARLESTON — The West Virginia agency that approves ... the battle of Philippi during the Civil War; an allegorical scene based on the State ...

The following events happened on these dates in West Virginia history. To read more, go to e-WV: The West Virginia ...

Famous for leading the ill-fated "Pickett's Charge" at Gettysburg, George Pickett was a West Point ... killed by the war's end. George Edward Pickett was raised in Richmond, Virginia, the eldest ...

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 ...

GHENT, WV (WVNS) — Did you know that the first Union casualty in the American Civil War is buried in West Virginia? So, according to the Tipperary Museum of Hidden History, the first actual ...