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  • ** FILE ** In this Feb. 24, 2012, photo, a detail photo shows Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson's brass epaulets that he wore on formal occasions while a professor at the Virginia Military Institute in Richmond, Va. (AP Photo/Richmond Times-Dispatch, Dean Hoffmeyer)

    Lee's sword at new Appomattox museum

    The sword Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee had at his side when he surrendered to Union Gen. Ulysses S. Grant is returning to Appomattox as the centerpiece of a new museum examining the post-Civil War struggle to heal the nation.


  • **FILE** Rep. James P. Moran, Virginia Democrat

    EDITORIAL: The job-creation circus

    Asian and African aliens are traveling around the country taking American jobs, and one politician wants to put a stop to it. The catch is, the fight is over circus animals.


  • Fort Monroe in Hampton, Va., was a mecca for fugitive slaves during the Civil War. (Associated Press)

    Obama to make Fort Monroe a national monument

    President Obama wants to protect a deactivated Army fort in Virginia's Tidewater area that played an important role in the nation's slave history.


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