My family just came back from a two-week vacation where we visited everything from two national parks to Colonial Williamsburg to the beaches along the Chesapeake Bay. However, the highlight of the ...

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 ...

Volunteers of a little-known group called the Williamsburg Battlefield Association have come together in an effort to tell forgotten stories of the citizens, soldiers and enslaved people of the Civil ...

We went sledding there and played hide and seek, rolled Easter eggs and stole our first kisses. We could be dragged away only when we heard our mom's vibrant whistle, signaling dinner. When we were ...

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 Virgina, Civil War buffs wince when Terry Rensel mentions family connections to the 145th Pennsylvania Regiment, recruited in Erie. "People wince because it was such a tough luck regiment," Rensel ...

Learn holy ways to work toward peace. Depicted: Queen Elizabeth, mounted on a mule, preventing a civil war in 1323, on the field of Alvalade (‘St. Elizabeth of Aragon in the Alvalade Battlefield,’ by ...