No buildings predating 1864 can be found in Alexandria. Most of the structures ... However, that isn't a contradiction about the city's pre-Civil War structures, because Kent House stood on ...

In Mercy Street Revealed's first blog post, McPherson provides background on the Union occupation of Alexandria and the Peninsula Campaign of the American Civil War. On May 24, 1861, Union ...

When Harriet Lankford’s children were young, they spent afternoons searching the family’s Alexandria, Virginia, property, Clarens, for Civil War relics ... bespoke La Cornue stove imported ...

Kourtland Marcotte didn’t know that Black soldiers played such significant roles in Civil War ... from Louisiana. Louisiana ...

One of the major accomplishments during the Civil War was the establishment ... hospital system in the first year of the war, local Alexandria establishments were used as hospitals.