"they want to send their children to school"
Teachers reported to the Freedmen’s Bureau monthly listing information such as the number of students enrolled in their school, sources of financial support, and...
Virginia leaves the Union
On April 17, 1861, delegates to a special convention of the Commonwealth of Virginia voted to repeal its ratification of the United States Constitution. Virginia was...
Virginia sues West Virginia
This December 1866 subpoena ordered representatives of the State of West Virginia to appear before the Supreme Court in a post-Civil War jurisdictional dispute...
Virginians fear Union raiders
Virginia and Tennessee both joined the Confederacy. And both states held sizable numbers of Union supporters, especially in the mountains of eastern Tennessee and...
West Virginia admitted
When the Civil War began, Virginia rejected the Federal Constitution and the Union and joined the Confederacy of the South. West Virginians preferred to remain within...
Why not let women fight?
By late 1864 the Confederacy was finding it increasingly difficult to find men for its army. A group of women from Harrisonburg, Virginia, wrote to Confederate...
Yorktown National Cemetery, Yorktown, Virginia
Adjacent to the battlefield where the American Revolution ended in 1781 and surrounded by Civil War battlefields, Yorktown was established as a national cemetery in...