The board voted to pass resolutions that will change or remove plaques on the Rotunda that honor UVa’s Confederate war dead, strengthen the school’s open-flame policy and make the Lawn ...

Confederate Lieutenant Henry S. Farley pulled the trigger of a large cannon at Fort Sumter at 4:30 a.m. on April 12, 1861.

Wikimedia Commons/Middleton, Strobridge & Co., lithographer; Mathews, Alfred Edward, 1831-1874, artist The 47-day Siege of ...