A Virginia man recently confessed to bringing a pipe bomb to a Civil War reenactment, creating a less-than-historic retelling of how an important battle unfolded. Gerald Leonard Drake, 63, a former ...

Union and Confederate forces faced off in this open stretch of land during the battle at Cedar Creek in Virginia's Shenandoah Valley in October 1864. The Cedar Creek Battlefield Foundation oversees ...

HARRISONBURG, Va. (WSET) — Gerald Leonard Drake, a Winchester man, and former Civil War reenactor pleaded guilty on Monday to mailing threatening letters and planting a pipe bomb at the Cedar Creek ...

On the last day of summer, in central Virginia, a battalion of Confederate soldiers marches in orderly ranks onto the field sloping down to Sailor’s Creek. A smaller force of Federals already holds ...

Libertyville’s Ansel Brainerd Cook Chapter, National Society Daughters of the American Revolution, first met the McGlades at a book signing hosted by the village of Wadsworth. Diana Dretske, curator ...

Benedict Arnold had been growing hunkier all afternoon. Incarnated, at the moment, by Cameron Green, the director of interpretation at historic Fort Ticonderoga, Arnold had spent much of this May ...

Brandon Marvin has had an interest in World War I since he was 11. After serving six years in the Missouri National Guard, Marvin made a career collecting, preserving and protecting military history ...

Civil War reenactor and historian Mike Inman demonstrates how to use a Civil War-era pill roller with Playdough in Karissa Prewitt's fourth-grade class at Peterson Elementary School in Kalispell on ...

A Winchester man and former Civil War reenactor pleaded guilty Monday to mailing threatening letters and planting a pipe bomb at the Cedar Creek Battlefield in Middletown during an event in 2017.

Soldiers perform a Civil War battle reenactment in New York. (Staff Sgt. Teddy Wade/Army) A Virginia man recently confessed to bringing a pipe bomb to a Civil War reenactment, creating a ...