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 ...

The fighting of the American Civil War ultimately reached nearly every state in the Northern and Southern territories, with ...

This national park in Virginia commemorates four major battles fought in the American Civil War: Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, The Wilderness, and Spotsylvania.

The Army of Northern Virginia, commonly referred to as "Lee's Army," was the Confederacy's main fighting force in the Eastern Theater of the Civil War. Strategically, the Eastern Theater was ...