However, more civil war battles were fought in Virginia than any other state. Virginia was the site of more than 100 battles, according to historical data from the National Archives Catalog.

Fought over three days in March 1865, the Battle of Bentonville in Johnston County, North Carolina, is considered the last ...

Mill State Park is inviting history buffs to experience a unique event this February that explores the challenges Civil War ...

By 1804, Northern states had voted to abolish slavery within their borders. In the half century leading up to the Civil War, white and black activists, women and men worked together under the ...

The Army of Northern Virginia before the battle of Sharpsburg ... the central tenet that the defense of states' rights, not slavery, caused the Civil War, and that Confederate soldiers were ...

Most folks will tell you the Civil War began April ... considered the state’s forceful seizure of government properties an act of war, noting Anderson’s evacuation had been a defensive tactic ...