Perhaps the most well-known destination in West Virginia, Harpers Ferry is more than a quaint 19th-century town. It's a National Historic Park with Civil War sites including battlefields ...

J.R. Clifford was many things, an activist, an educator, a journalist, a veteran and the first African-American lawyer in the ...

The American Civil War Museum actually comprises three sites: The American Civil ... at Appomattox sits in Appomattox, Virginia (about 95 miles west of Richmond). Thanks to its comprehensive ...

Admitted to the Union in 1863, West Virginia was the only state created from breaking apart from a Confederate state during the Civil War and played a key role as a border state. Winter Storms ...