MANASSAS, VA — This weekend marks the 164th anniversary of the First Battle of Manassas, and the National Park Service has a weekend of events planned to commemorate the first major land battle of the ...

Soon after David Childs and his wife, Mary Ann, moved to Lake Ridge, they visited the Prince William County Fair and saw a company of Civil War reenactors. Childs, “a Civil War buff since the day I ...

MANASSAS, Va. -- For all the attention to authenticity, organizers for a major re-enactment marking the 150th anniversary of the Battle of Bull Run can't replicate one important detail: the weather.

Irish native Capt. James Haggerty of the 69th New York State Militia Regiment was one of the first Union officers killed in battle 155 years ago today, July 21, at the First Battle of Manassas (also ...

Pessimistic old General Winfield Scott said it would take three years and 300,000 men to put down the rebellion. But Washington socialites thought otherwise. On the morning of July 21, 1861 they ...