Tag Archives: Civil War

• Mark Holmberg Reports

  HOLMBERG: Full moon gets partial blame for Stonewall Jackson death

  It was May 2, 150 years ago, a little past 9 p.m. when, by moonlight, Jackson was mistaken for the enemy.
• News

  Full moon gets partial blame for Civil War general’s death

  General Stonewall Jackson was shot at the battle of Chancellorsville
• Virginia This Morning

  VIRGINIA THIS MORNING: Civil War Adventure Camp

  Pamplin Historical Park has a Civil War Adventure Camp where you can see how the soldiers lived back in that era.
• Mark Holmberg Reports

  HOLMBERG: 150 years ago, dozens of girls killed in munitions blast that shifted winds of war

  On Wednesday, a long overdue historical marker was unveiled near the banks of the James River in Richmond on the 150th anniversary of one of the worst industrial accidents in U.S. history.
• News

  Civil War sailors laid to rest 150 years later

  The remains of two men found in the wreckage of the Civil War ironclad USS Monitor 11 years ago are being laid to rest Friday in Arlington National Cemetery.
• News

  150 years later, USS Monitor sailors to be laid to rest in Arlington

  The remains of two unknown Union sailors recovered from the Civil War ironclad the USS Monitor will be interred in Arlington National Cemetery.
• News

  Bomb squad removes Civil War relics from house

  One man’s decision to clean house caused a bit of a scare for some neighbors in Prince George Friday morning.
• Mark Holmberg Reports / News

  HOLMBERG: Park where body was found is filled with history

  Thursday’s tragic discovery of the body of an abducted gas station owner at Ancarrows Landing isn’t the first time violence has haunted the park on the south bank of the James.
• News

  U of R President takes up for Emancipation on National Stage

  A panel of historians will recreate the national scene and the dilemmas facing Americans on September 22, 1862, without drawing on their knowledge of what would unfold over the next few months and years.
• Mark Holmberg Reports / News

  HOLMBERG: Girls who died here in Civil War munitions factory blast to be remembered

  Some were as young as 11, assembling or disassembling percussion caps, friction primers, signal lights, rockets, all things explosive for the southern cause.
• News

  Students connect with past at Museum of the Confederacy

  But some have questioned why, as African Americans, the students want to spend so much time studying an era and place associated with so much pain.
• News

  Questions swirl around mystery Civil War photos

  “I think they’re fascinating. Everyone loves a mystery. It would be nice to identify these photographs,” said museum senior curator Robert Hancock.