This Christmas season finds America embroiled in a Civil War. Not two armies engaged on the battlefield, but a very uncivil ...

Fredericksburg, Virginia witnessed history unfold and is still leading the way. Visit Ferry Farm, George Washington’s childhood home to “Freedom, a Work in Progress,” a free self-guided trail, telling ...

at [email protected] for details. Frontal assaults on an entrenched position rarely work. I get the idea, throwing a massive group of men at the enemy’s main line, designed to overwhelm them for a ...

Washingtonians in 1860 could take trains directly to Baltimore and from there to Philadelphia, Harrisburg, or the trans-Appalachian West. A journey from Alexandria to Richmond, however, required a ...

The 145th Pennsylvania Regiment, primarily from Erie County, was known as a "tough luck" unit during the Civil War. Terry Rensel, an Erie native, will speak about the regiment's experience at the ...

Citizens of Fredericksburg bore the brunt of the war when their city became the first in America to be “ravaged and bombarded and looted as the Union army approached. There was a civilian exodus that ...