For those seeking to engage with Virginian Civil War history more deeply, the Virginia Tourism Corporation and Civil War Trails Inc. have a new brochure that should scratch the itch,
Sites on the Road to Freedom stretch from Alexandria to Abingdon and mark where slaves, soldiers, educators, politicians and others staged rebellions, fought for freedom, educated their children, were born
The newly installed Civil War Trails marker on Mulberry Street in Beaufort provides historical information about Union Town, a refugee camp built in 1862 by African Americans who fled enslavement to Union-occupied Beaufort.