Barton Myers, associate professor of history at Washington and Lee University, will give the keynote lecture for the 154th Anniversary of the Battle of Fredericksburg at the Fredericksburg and ...

Somehow, we imagine that the politics of the past was more civil, more genteel, more rational. But it wasn’t. By Jamelle Bouie Before we understood what war did to its survivors, tens of thousands of ...

CIVILWAR DIG: This print of "Our Soldiers in the Streets of Fredericksburg," by A.R. Waud, shows Union troops under Confederate fire advancing with caution through the streets of Fredericksburg, ...

Fredericksburg, Va. | As part of a Memorial Day tradition, more than 15,000 luminaries were set up over the weekend at Fredericksburg Battlefield to represent each of the 15,300 Union soldiers from ...

FREDERICKSBURG — On the second floor of the old brick building on Sophia Street, the three Confederate snipers waited for the Yankees. They had their muskets at the ready, and paper ammunition ...

WASHINGTON – It’s hallowed ground, a popular bike path and a commuter shortcut. It’s also a new skirmish line for a city neighborhood. Lee Drive inside Fredericksburg National Battlefield Park is 4.5 ...

Soldiers take part in a re-enactment at Fredericksburg, Virginia to mark the 150th anniversary of the Civil War battle that took place in and around the town. (Photo for The Washington Post by Norm ...

FREDERICKSBURG — Perhaps the Yankee boys from Company C had tumbled into the basement on Princess Anne Street to escape the rebel snipers hidden in the ruined buildings outside. Maybe they had sought ...