Virginia is granting more than $3.9 million to protect 621 acres of lands where Civil War battles raged ... next to the Richmond National Battlefield Park, within the area where Union and ...

Several of those landmarks can be found across Richmond National Battlefield Park, which captures different parts of the Civil War that occurred at or near the former capital of the Confederacy.

In the spring of 1865, Confederate and Union forces were at a stalemate outside the city of Petersburg, Va., about 30 miles ...