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 ...

In December 1862, Union forces launched a massive assault on Confederate defenses at Fredericksburg—only to suffer one of the most lopsided defeats of the Civil War. Bruce Willis Family Makes ...

Archaeologists are looking for an available plot in Fredericksburg National Cemetery, which saw its last veteran burial in 1945. NPS/Mary O'Neill A Civil War cemetery in northern Virginia may soon ...

The soldiers probably did not have visions of sugar plums dancing in their heads as they shivered around the campfire at Fort ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

If you're looking for a quaint destination where you can enjoy all of the history and beauty that Virginia has to offer, ...