and the Civil War (1861-1865). A total of eight projects will receive funding through the Virginia Battlefield Preservation Fund to acquire land for the purposes of permanent preservation and ...

Virginia is granting more than $3.9 million to protect 621 acres of lands where Civil War battles raged, including two sites in Henrico County and one in Dinwiddie County, Gov. Glenn Youngkin said.

battle. The brochure is designed to help visitors and residents navigate the history of the Civil War in Coastal Virginia. There are about 75 different sites on an illustrative map of the ...

(WRIC) – Hundreds of acres of Civil War battlefields ... in the Battle of Port Republic. Travis A. Voyles, Acting Secretary of Natural and Historic Resources, says that maintaining Virginia ...

VARINA, Virginia ... Battlefield and the scene of the battle on Sept. 29, 1864, when the U.S. Colored Troops broke through Confederate defenses for their greatest victory of the Civil War.

T wo Civil War battlefields in and around Northern Virginia have been named to Preservation Virginia's 2025 list of the state's most endangered historic places, with the nonprofit citing the ...

There are battlefields ... Eastern Panhandle is one of 150 lesser-known Civil War destinations the commission is highlighting on a new 13-state map that was Thursday, pointing the way to that ...

However, more civil war battles were fought in Virginia than any other state. Virginia was the site of more than 100 battles, according to historical data from the National Archives Catalog.