Medal of Honor recipient Pvt. Fitz Lee was honored today during a ceremony renaming the installation after him.

At the eastern edge of Westmoreland County’s Route 30 corridor lies one of the state’s best example of a colonial fort — Fort Ligonier, the site of the October 1758 battle where British and Colonial ...

In all, five natives of Staunton made it Major League Baseball as players – and three of them were named Larry.

The Battle of Gettysburg, fought on the first three days of July in 1863, resulted in more than 51,000 total casualties (dead, wounded, missing, captured), including more than 7,000 dead, yet it began ...

An actual number has never been firmed up. It’s estimated that around 620,000 men were killed. In 2011, historian J. David ...

The anniversary of the Battle of Brandy Station is June 9. On this day in 1863, thousands clashed, leading to a turning point at the Battle of Gettysburg.

Many historians consider the 1863 Battle of Chancellorsville to be Confederate General Robert E. Lee's greatest victory. Facing a Union Army more than twice the size of his own, Lee divided his ...

A descendant of Confederate General Stonewall Jackson has rebuked a decision from a Virginia county school board to honor his ancestor on CNN 's First of All With Victor Blackwell on Saturday.

General Robert E. Lee’s greatest victory is considered the Battle of Chancellorsville, but this came at a high price with the loss of General Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson.

One hundred and fifty years ago, on May 2, 1863, during the American Civil War, Robert E. Lee’s masterpiece of the Battle of Chancellorsville, Virginia, took place. This was Lee’s greatest ...

The battle of Chancellorsville in May 1863 was yet another huge win for the Confederacy, following the triumph at Fredericksburg.