This simple dish towel was used as a flag of truce by Confederate troops during Gen. Robert E. Lee’s surrender at Appomattox Court House, Virginia, on April 9, 1865, and is now on display at the ...

People place 12,000 miniature American flags on the hills on the Virginia War Memorial grounds to commemorate the annual Hill of Heroes Commemoration on June 28, 2024, in Richmond, Va. Margo Wagner ...

Ben King, Operations Director, Virginia War Memorial. King believes when a flag has flown for the last time, it deserves a fitting retirement. That belief was at the heart of a special ceremony ...