Strategically, the Eastern Theater was arguably the most important battleground of the Civil War ... as well as site of the War's most famous battles. The Army of Northern Virginia before the ...

The American Civil War Museum actually comprises three sites: The American Civil War ... the Confederacy at Appomattox sits in Appomattox, Virginia (about 95 miles west of Richmond).

Throughout much of the Civil War, a key Union objective was to penetrate the South and seize the city of Richmond, Virginia ... in part because the battle introduced obstacles his men had never ...

One of the most important battles of the U.S. Civil War -- and indeed of all U.S. history ... as the Confederate Army of North Virginia, commanded by Robert E. Lee, and the Union Army of ...