Soldiers take part in a re-enactment at Fredericksburg, Virginia to mark the 150th anniversary of the Civil War battle that took place in and around the town. (Photo for The Washington Post by Norm ...

FREDERICKSBURG — On the second floor of the old brick building on Sophia Street, the three Confederate snipers waited for the Yankees. They had their muskets at the ready, and paper ammunition ...

This Day In Weather History is a daily podcast by Chris Mei from The Weather Network, featuring stories about people, communities and events and how weather impacted them. If you look back at letters ...

Somehow, we imagine that the politics of the past was more civil, more genteel, more rational. But it wasn’t. By Jamelle Bouie Before we understood what war did to its survivors, tens of thousands of ...

FREDERICKSBURG — Perhaps the Yankee boys from Company C had tumbled into the basement on Princess Anne Street to escape the rebel snipers hidden in the ruined buildings outside. Maybe they had sought ...

Throughout much of the Civil War, a key Union objective was to penetrate the South and seize the city of Richmond, Virginia, the capital of the Confederacy. In order to take the city, Union troops had ...