Virginia. They then research and create posters depicting prominent abolitionists and the tactics they used to advance the cause of ending slavery. In the 1800s, before the Civil War, if you were ...

The Army of Northern Virginia before the battle of Sharpsburg ... not slavery, caused the Civil War, and that Confederate soldiers were heroic and defeated militarily only because the Union's ...

Mount Vernon, the Virginia home of George Washington ... The ladies took over the house in 1860 -- a year before the start of the Civil War -- at a time of fast-rising tensions between the North ...

The wounded soldiers above were photographed at a hospital in Fredericksburg, Virginia ... casualty of a war he’d volunteered to fight a half-century before. The Civil War killed and injured ...

And Wharton won election to Virginia’s legislature ... Lee, Hill attended West Point before the Civil War. While there, he wrote his old friend encouraging Wharton to join him.

Now, 160 years later, 70 Black Union military members who fought in the Civil War from 1863 to 1865 will be memorialized in a monument planned for Rocky Mount in Franklin County, Virginia ...