Archive for 'Virginia' Category

Civil War Re-enactors Settle Battle

By Jonathan R. Allen - Last updated: Friday, January 8, 2010

A judge says it’s a draw between two Union and Confederate re-enactors who got into a tussle on the battlefield.

West Virginia Becomes a State

By Jonathan R. Allen - Last updated: Monday, November 30, 2009

Virginia seceded from the Union on April 17, 1861 to become part of the Confederate States of America. While the people of Virginia east of the Allegheny Mountains were pleased with the state’s secession, the Virginians who lived west of the Alleghenies, were not pleased to secede from the Union.