Erie County native Strong Vincent's heroism on July 2, 1863, at the Battle of Gettysburg is not where he first distinguished ...

Guided horseback mountain trail rides, axe throwing and archery are just a few of the family fun activities Fort Valley Ranch offers. Bordering the George Washington National Forest, it has fishing, ...

Gabriel Colvin Wharton, 1824-1906, was born in Culpeper County and was educated at Virginia Military Institute. During the Civil War he fought for the Confederacy and in 1863 rose to the rank of ...

Virginia Military Institute Superintendent Cedric T. Wins faces backlash for pushing for change ... Founded decades before the opening battles of the Civil War, VMI nonetheless has deep ties to ...

There are no fewer than four children of Civil War veterans living in Virginia; they are classified as “real” sons and daughters, by the heritage groups that keep track.

Virginia Military Institute Will Not Renew First Black Superintendent's Contract. More. ... a Confederate general during the American Civil War and former instructor at the school.

The supervisory board of the Virginia Military Institute on Friday said it would not renew the contract of the first Black superintendent of the oldest state-supported military college in the U.S.

Virginia Military Institute claims that statements Accuracy in Media made about professor Philip Crane are false. This is, itself, not true. The reality is that VMI thinks that our statements are ...

This meeting, Nour said, would be aimed at finding a longer-term solution to Syria's 13-year-old simmering civil war – in particular its underpinning by non-state actors such as Hezbollah at a ...

Civil War reenactors participate in funeral services Oct. 16 for the burial of Union soldier Byron R. Johnson. Johnson was among nearly 30 Civil War veterans whose remains languished in storage ...

Virginia’s Manassas National Battlefield Park, the location of two major battles in the American Civil War, is facing a grave threat with the greenlighting last week of a massive complex of data ...