Nestled between the Blue Ridge Mountains and the Shenandoah Valley sits a pocket-sized paradise where history isn’t cordoned ...

Lexington’s walkable scale makes it ideal for a day trip or weekend getaway, with most shops concentrated within a few easily navigated blocks. For those wishing to extend their visit, accommodations ...

What it cannot do is allow one group, such as Virginia Military Institute ... the city’s flag ban during its annual Lee-Jackson Day celebration. The flags of the Confederacy will be hoisted ...

This past year, she and her friends Taryn and Ellworth L.B. Weaver of Bealeton got to discussing the state’s Lee-Jackson Day celebrations and the 40 percent of Virginia’s wartime population ...

John Brown and many of his followers holed up in the fire engine house awaiting reinforcements by a swarm of "bees"—slaves from the surrounding area. But only a handful showed up. Library of ...

Shouffler and his friend Lee Hall of Waynesboro, another member of the honor guard, wore gray uniforms and carried working replicas of the .58-caliber, 1853-vintage Enfield rifles ...

Lexington is home to the Virginia Military Institute and Washington and Lee University but the most contentious event comes in January during the former holiday, Lee-Jackson Day. Hundreds of ...

But nearly four years to the day of Floyd’s death, a Virginia school ... names honor Stonewall Jackson, Robert E. Lee, and Turner Ashby, three Confederate military leaders who led the fight ...

Correspondent Tom Wilmer visits Stonewall Jackson’s home ... is owned and operated by Virginia Military Institute. We then stopped in for a visit with Lucy Wilkins, Director of Collections and ...

This brief silent film, a home movie from 1958, follows a young cadet and his visiting family members at the notable Virginia Military Institute ... to the right bottom of the screen is of Stonewall ...

A Confederate monument slated for removal from Arlington National Cemetery will be placed at a Civil War site owned by Virginia Military Institute. The state military ... there by hosting an annual ...

(AP) — The chief diversity officer of the nation’s oldest state-supported military college, Virginia Military Institute ... Stonewall Jackson, who taught at VMI, as well as the implementation ...