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4 days ago · Location. 38° 0.713′ N, 78° 23.248′ W. Marker is near Keswick, Virginia, in Albemarle County. It is in Royal Acres. Marker is on Keswick Road (Route 731) 0.1 miles north of Richmond Road (U.S. 250), on the right when traveling north. It is at the church. Touch for map. Marker is at or near this postal address: 3220 Keswick Rd, Keswick VA ...
1 day ago · A tour through some of the sites associated with Irish Americans from the bloodiest single day of the American Civil War, 17 September 1862.
3 days ago · It was here that Private Hawkes died on January 12, 1864. The Grosvenor House Hospital, once located at 414 N. Washington Street in Alexandria, Virginia, was built around 1830. Seized during the Civil War, it was used as a hospital for wounded soldiers, with the nearby Lee-Fendall House serving as a branch or annex.
5 days ago · The VBPF, established in 2010, focuses on protecting battlefields associated with the Revolutionary War, War of 1812, and Civil War. This grant round saw no applications for Revolutionary War or War of 1812 sites. Grant recipients must donate an easement to the Virginia Board of Historic Resources for any land acquired using these funds.
4 days ago · Civil War Rages On As Telegraph Road leads toward the City of Alexandria, it passes Rose Hill, where Mosby’s Raiders went to the Rose Hill mansion on Sept. 28, 1863, and captured Col. Dulaney, a ...
2 days ago · The Battle of Shiloh, also known as the Battle of Pittsburg Landing, was a major battle in the American Civil War fought on April 6–7, 1862. The fighting took place in southwestern Tennessee, which was part of the war's Western Theater. The battlefield is located between a small, undistinguished church named Shiloh and Pittsburg Landing on ...
4 days ago · Although the Civil War was not fought on land in Great Falls, there was one skirmish—the Battle of Dranesville on Dec. 20, 1861; local farmers were harassed throughout the war as both Union and ...
