When Harriet Lankford’s children were young, they spent afternoons searching the family’s Alexandria, Virginia, property, Clarens, for Civil War relics ... was a huge history buff and loved ...

One of the major accomplishments during the Civil War was the establishment ... hospital system in the first year of the war, local Alexandria establishments were used as hospitals.

ALEXANDRIA — Two Civil War soldiers who were buried in Douglas County will be honored this Saturday, April 26 — William Nichols and Joseph Serle Alger. Quartermaster Nichols, a Civil War veteran and ...

A piece of American history has been unearthed at the Liberia House, one of the most historically significant sites in ...

MANASSAS, VA — A Civil War-era projectile has been discovered ... Weir sold the property to Alexandria brewer Robert Portner in 1888, and it became used for dairy business.