Walking up a hill — slowly, because he’s 4 — we stumbled upon the old Civil War earthworks ... these Union forts were still standing. I thought of the incomplete story that Washington ...

One-hundred-and-fifty years ago today, Washington was ... The schedule at both forts leans heavily toward living history, allowing visitors to wander through Civil War encampments and talk with ...

(These are the oldest military forts built ... Intended to defend Washington, D.C. from river approaches, Fort Washington was garrisoned by U.S. Marines during the Civil War.

(AP) - After its earthen walls were wiped out by the construction of an oil terminal in the early 1900s, the landmark water battery that defended Gloucester Point during the Civil War passed ...