In Virginia, local governments had been banned from removing Confederate memorials and statues until the law was changed in 2020, though the statute did not apply to school names.. On Friday ...

In most key aspects of the American Civil War – from money and manpower to guns and supplies ... Virginia > Total sharpshooters: 1,099 > Sharpshooter troop allegiance: 100% Confederate ...

The school board of Shenandoah County in Virginia voted to restore two schools' original names derived from Confederate generals. The school names were changed in 2020 by a vote from the same board.

A Virginia school district is poised to restore the names of Confederate leaders to two local schools − four years after the decision to change the names during the racial reckoning of 2020.. In ...

Burnside's plan was to cross the river quickly at Fredericksburg, Virginia, surprising General Robert E. Lee's Confederate army, and proceed 35 miles to Richmond.

The bullet in the soldier’s spine was a Minié ball, a common round of Civil War ammunition. The foot of one amputated leg also contained a Minié ball. Bones in a second severed leg were shattered.

In 2015, nine black churchgoers in Charleston, S.C. were slain during a Bible study by Dylann Roof, a white supremacist. Photographs later emerged of the killer carrying a Confederate flag.

CULPEPER, Va. — The remains of a Confederate general unearthed from beneath a monument at the center of a Virginia intersection have been reinterred at a cemetery in his hometown. L… ...

CULPEPER, Va. (AP) — The remains of a Confederate general unearthed from beneath a monument at the center of a Virginia intersection have been reinterred at a cemetery in his hometown. Last ...