On a sunny but crisp afternoon this spring, more visitors than you might think trekked on a weekday to Ball’s Bluff ...

Leesburg residents voted 400-22 to ratify Virginia’s Ordinance of Secession. A mere five miles northwest, however, the town ...

The Battle of Gettysburg, fought on the first three days of July in 1863, resulted in more than 51,000 total casualties (dead, wounded, missing, captured), including more than 7,000 dead, yet it began ...

Pickle juice is becoming a salty, tangy and sometimes spicy star ingredient in cocktails. Fans say pickle juice adds depth to drinks like margaritas, martinis and micheladas. The pickle martini, ...

A group of teenage boys is in custody after police say they stole cars and drove them into storefronts around the San Francisco Bay Area in a series of burglaries ...

Shiloh National Military Park in Tennessee was the site of a bloody Civil War battle to control the Confederate Railroad ...

The good news is that work has started on what will eventually be a Chipotle restaurant in Farmville. It just might take a minute before you start recognizing the building. The reason for that, as ...

Pour a Glass at a Vineyard Linden, Va. Virginia horse country is also known for its wine. Just over an hour’s drive from DC, ...

Created as a result of the Civil War, West Virginia became the 35th state on June 20, 1863 after Virginia’s northern counties refused to secede from the United States along with the rest of the ...

This vegetation — an obvious signifier for Vietnam and other Asian landscapes — was incongruously situated in an area that once witnessed the U.S. Civil War, on a site densely populated by ...

Bill Lohmann Apr 28, 2013 0 Four children of Civil War soldiers (clockwise, from top left): Mildred Hammock Adkins, Isabelle Hammock Hodges, Calvin Robertson Crane, Hazel Mason Jeter Bill Lohmann ...