Richmond and the American Revolution

Abraham Lincoln's Visit to Richmond 1865: Civil War Richmond

Richmond Remembers 200 Years

They built offices on Spring Street… but first they found the past. Before Afton Chemical, this land was the Virginia State Penitentiary and during construction, dozens of unmarked graves were uncovered. Richmond history runs deeper than most people realize. #R#RichmondVAR#RichmondHistoryRVA #D#DarkHistoryRVAHistory

A. P. Hill Rolls Up The Union Line #history #civilwar #Union #Confederate After the Overland Campaign, Union General-in-Chief, Ulysses S. Grant moved the Army of the Potomac across the James River and attempted to take Petersburg, Virginia. That city represented the location where Confederate General Robert E. Lee and the Capital of the Confederacy, Richmond, got their supplies, using the multiple railroads into the city. For days, Grant battered Petersburg in an attempt to quickly cut Richmond