PETERSBURG, Va. (WRIC) — A national campaign is underway to permanently protect one of the Civil War’s most pivotal battlefields — the site of the Union army’s final charge that helped end the war.

The American Battlefield Trust is trying to preserve two more Civil War battlefield properties that are connected to the May 5, 1862, Battle of Williamsburg. A 2.2-acre site containing two abandoned ...

BLOOMDALE Elmwood High School’s Heidi Meyer and her 10th grade Advanced Placement United States History classroom visited Fort Meigs in Perrysburg, thanks to a grant from the American Battlefield ...

PEA RIDGE, Ark. — A battlefield preservation group has identified land it wants to save in Northwest Arkansas. The American Battlefield Trust wants to preserve 3 acres on the western side of Pea Ridge ...

A grant from the American Battlefield Trust’s History Field Trip Grant program will allow Christy Downs, a Willoughby Middle School history teacher, and her eighth-grade classroom to soon venture to ...

SPRING HILL, Tenn. (WKRN) — A historic battlefield in Spring Hill will be preserved forever, once the Battle of Franklin Trust closes on the property on Tuesday. The 11 acres of land were home to the ...

HENRICO COUNTY, Va. (WRIC) — Gov. Glenn Youngkin announced on Thursday that more than $6 million in grant funds will go towards protecting hundreds of acres of battlefield lands. One Henrico County ...

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 ...

Western Prince William community members united Saturday for a trip back in time at Sudley United Methodist Church within the confines of Manassas National Battlefield Park. Seeking to pick up where ...

The US state of Virginia saw some 50% of the nation's Civil War casualties. Now, mass construction of AI data centres is encroaching on historic lands, the environment and local communities. As the ...