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 ...

In Mercy Street Revealed's first blog post, McPherson provides background on the Union occupation of Alexandria and the Peninsula Campaign of the American Civil War. On May 24, 1861, Union ...

A four-acre estate said to be on the site of what had once been former President George Washington’s hunting lodge is on the ...

A Civil War-era projectile has been discovered on a Manassas historic site celebrating its 200th anniversary this year. City ...

When heavy rain strikes a centuries-old neighborhood in Alexandria, Va ... Some of them date back to the Civil War. Pushed to clean them up, communities have been building vast tunnels like ...