On Dec. 13, 1862, 150 years ago, during the American Civil War, a dramatic, a lop-sided Confederate victory occurred at the Battle of Fredericksburg, Va. For the Northern side, the battle was an ...

The NPG's Warren Perry visits the Frederickburg National Military Park and discusses the Battle of Fredericksburg, which took placed on December 13, 1862. Part of our ongoing series commemorating the ...

Federal troops position artillery on Stafford Heights, Va., to shell the town of Fredericksburg and the Confederate forces ...

In December 1862, Union forces under General Ambrose Burnside launched a doomed assault against entrenched Confederates in Fredericksburg, Virginia. This video breaks down one of the most lopsided ...

One hundred sixty years ago, a series of battles and engagements in Virginia between the Rapidan and James Rivers determined the outcome of America’s Civil War. It is known as the Overland Campaign, ...

Throughout much of the Civil War, a key Union objective was to penetrate the South and seize the city of Richmond, Virginia, the capital of the Confederacy. In order to take the city, Union troops had ...

Somehow, we imagine that the politics of the past was more civil, more genteel, more rational. But it wasn’t. By Jamelle Bouie Before we understood what war did to its survivors, tens of thousands of ...