Robert Donaldson was born Oct. 13, 1828, in Perry County, Ohio. He was the son of Thomas Donaldson and Nancy Saffer Donaldson. Both natives of Virginia, Thomas and Nancy immigrated to Ohio in 1823 ...

Gen. John Magruder, a Virginia-born Confederate general, took charge of Texas defenses from late 1862 onward, and led a ...

The Confederate capital of Richmond, Virginia, had fallen into Union hands on April 2, 1865. Robert E. Lee and the Army of Northern Virginia were forced to flee, but soon found themselves cut off ...

Upon graduation from Wichita State University in 1968, Phil and his wife Darlene Jo (Werner) Elwood spent a short time in Virginia while ... fascinated by the Civil War and World War I and II.

Born in New York City in 1810, Bushrod Birch spent time on and off in Pittsfield before serving in the Civil War, and returned to Pittsfield shortly before his death ...

However, his short fuse and alcoholism eventually wrecked his own life and brought disaster for Texas during the Civil War. Louis Trezevant ... the University of Virginia, and after an ...

Abraham Lincoln was assassinated 160 years ago. There had been four years of terrible conflagration and the loss of thousands of lives. I have chosen to honor Black History Month by featuring two of ...

From trailblazers to inventors, Olympians, and politicians, numerous Black historical figures have left their marks on ...

“Our job is lethality and readiness and war ... Army Infantry School. It was named after Henry L. Benning, a racist judge and ...