It’s all covered
This envelope held the enlistment papers and other military documents pertaining to Private Nathaniel M. McGehee's service with Company M of the 3rd Regiment of the...
Kentucky wants statehood
After the Revolutionary War, some of the original thirteen states had no western boundary. The District of Kentucky (then part of Virginia) sought to be “a...
Lincoln says, keep fighting!
On February 1, 1865, President Lincoln sent this telegram to Gen. Ulysses S. Grant at City Point, Virginia. It encouraged Grant to continue fighting vigorously....
Lincoln sees the end of the war
On June 15, 1864, President Abraham Lincoln wired Union Gen. Ulysses Grant approving a plan for a flanking movement against Petersburg, Virginia, that Grant had...
Map of the battle of Fredericksburg and the Rappahannock River
This map details Union and Confederate army positions around the Virginia city of Fredericksburg in December 1862. Sitting on the south bank of the Rappahannock...
Mr. and Mrs. Bunel
While many slave couples formed lasting bonds during their enslavement, slave marriages had no legal foundation or protection. The abolishment of slavery not only...
National Cemetery in Yorktown, Virginia
Adjacent to the battlefield where the American Revolution ended in 1781 and surrounded by Civil War battlefields, Yorktown National Cemetery was established in 1866....