Leaders of both parties honored 100 Black lawmakers from the Reconstruction era, then turned to modern battles over Confederate heritage.

If individuals want to pay tribute to the Confederacy, they should pay that tribute themselves and not burden Virginia ...

The war took a heavy toll on Virginia. More than 150,000 Virginians served in the Confederate military, and many of them were killed or wounded. Much of the state was left in ruins, and its ...

Admitted to the Union in 1863, West Virginia was the only state created from breaking apart from a Confederate state during the Civil War and played a key role as a border state. Winter Storms ...

During the Civil War, Confederates targeted free Black people in the North, kidnapping them to sell into slavery. After the ...

The Army of Northern Virginia, commonly referred ... the central tenet that the defense of states' rights, not slavery, caused the Civil War, and that Confederate soldiers were heroic and defeated ...

Instead, Lee commanded the Virginia state forces and became a general in the Confederate army, praised as a tactician who led his men to a mixed record of wins against vastly superior forces ...