Nelson Lankford, author of “Richmond Burning,” will speak there at ... Elegba Folklore Society will perform “Africans in the Civil War” on the Capitol grounds. At the African Burial ...

In the last days of the Civil War, advancing Union soldiers found a large portion of Richmond was burning. The author makes a case for why he believes that much of the fire spread from what was ...

For the next few weeks, we'll be covering the final days of the Civil War exactly ... and the last campaign of the war had begun. Unfortunately for the residents of Richmond, the end of the ...

Lankford continues his investigation of the Civil War's human dimensions with this narrative of Richmond's fall in 1865. As the war progressed it was increasingly clear that the fall of its ...

During the Civil War, Confederate forces vowed to keep the Union Army out of Richmond, Virginia, at any cost. That included burning the city to the ground as Northern troops approached.

a foundry located along the James River and a national landmark where weapons of the Confederacy were made during the Civil War. As she describes the burning of Richmond, Coleman explains how the ...

Richmond Burning is a parade of memorable human moments ... the elite that brought on the Civil War survived it. This is history with an edge, slicing through the romanticism that surrounds ...

Some Confederate soldiers anguished over the burning of Chambersburg ... at the school in Richmond, Va. Ayers, now president emeritus of the university, examines the Civil War through the eyes ...

Protesters in Richmond set fire to the United Daughters ... the South and promoted the Lost Cause interpretation of the Civil War that “emphasized states’ rights and secession over slavery ...

(AP) - The armies fighting the American Civil War scrapped ... else during the war, according to author Edward L. Ayers, president emeritus at the University of Richmond. In his latest book ...