In Virgina, Civil War buffs wince when Terry Rensel mentions family connections to the 145th Pennsylvania Regiment, recruited in Erie. "People wince because it was such a tough luck regiment," Rensel ...

SPOTSYLVANIA COUNTY, Va. (WRIC) — Spotsylvania County obtained artifacts from the Civil War’s Battle of Chancellorsville to display in museum near the battlefield after the renaming of a Navy ship by ...

On May 4, 1864, Union and Confederate forces met about 5 miles west of Chancellorsville, Virginia, in what would become known as the Battle of the Wilderness. Gen. Winfield S. Hancock’s II Corps, Army ...

SALTVILLE, Va. – About a century before Teddy Mullins was born, two men stood about 100 yards apart and fought on opposite sides of a Civil War battle in Chancellorsville, Va. Both soldiers survived.

CHANCELLORSVILLE, Va. (AP) — Virginia is recognizing a key date in the Civil War: the first combat between U.S. Colored Troops and Confederate forces north of the James River. A state historical ...

The Battle of Chancellorsville; the attack of Stonewall Jackson and his army upon the right flank of the Army of the Potomac at Chancellorsville, Virginia, on Saturday afternoon, May 2, 1863. By ...

CHANCELLORSVILLE, Va. -- "Why did we run? Well, those who didn't run are there yet." -- an Ohio soldier -- The 12-mile march on May 2, 1863, took Stonewall Jackson from the clearing in the woods where ...

A new thrust into Virginia -- Fredericksburg -- November-December 1862 -- A fast march -- The fatal delay -- Across the Rappahannock -- Burnside's failure -- "That ...

One hundred and fifty years ago, on May 2, 1863, during the American Civil War, Robert E. Lee’s masterpiece of the Battle of Chancellorsville, Virginia, took place. This was Lee’s greatest military ...

The 145th Pennsylvania Regiment, primarily from Erie County, was known as a "tough luck" unit during the Civil War. Terry Rensel, an Erie native, will speak about the regiment's experience at the ...