Battling Ballots: The Enemy of My Enemy is My Friend
The United States presidential election of 1864 would prove to be just as important a turning point in the American Civil War …
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Battling Ballots: Absentee Voting and the Civil War
In this installment of our Battling Ballots series, when the United States is in the middle of a Civil War and a …
Battling Ballots: Should we stay or should we go now? North Carolina votes on secession.
Perhaps it was like candidate endorsements from advocacy organizations or newspaper editorial boards today. But in 1861, voters in North Carolina themselves …
ACWM Offers Free Admission to Virginia Public School Teachers and Students
The American Civil War Museum will offer free admission to any Virginia public K-12 school teacher or student and will continue to do …
Annual Legacies: Chaplain Garland H. White
There are thousands of legacies housed within the American Civil War Museum, and the Annual Fund helps to provide critical funding for …
Annual Legacies: White House of the Confederacy
There are thousands of legacies housed within the American Civil War Museum, and the Annual Fund helps to provide critical funding for …
Annual Legacies: Dr. Mary Edwards Walker
There are thousands of legacies housed within the American Civil War Museum, and the Annual Fund helps to provide critical funding for …
House 200 | A Journey Through Time
This year, 2018, we commemorated the bicentennial of the house most commonly referred to as The White House of the Confederacy. Our …
Myths & Misunderstandings: The Museum
Last year, comments on one of our Facebook posts sparked a larger conversation about recurring debates about the Civil War. We asked …
House 200 | “dear old Central School”
On October 1, 1872, Richmond’s Central School opened with 11 teachers and approximately 600 students – all of them white in a …