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1000 BANK STREET
RICHMOND, VA 23219, USA 

Website: http://www.virginiacapitol.gov

Designed by Thomas Jefferson, this officially became the capitol of the Confederacy May 21, 1861. The Congress of the Confederacy shared the building with the Virginia State Legislature from July 1861 to March 1865. In February 1862 Confederate President Jefferson Davis was inaugurated on the grounds of Capitol Square. A statue of Robert E. Lee and busts of Confederate heroes Stonewall Jackson, J.E.B. Stuart, Joseph E. Johnston, and Fitzhugh Lee, among others, are located here. Visitors are welcome to walk the grounds and tour the building.

Hollywood Cemetery
Richmond, Virginia | This impressive and gorgeously landscaped cemetery contains the graves of President Jefferson Davis, Gen. J.E.B. Stuart, Gen. George E. Pickett, and other Confederate notables, as well as 18, 000 Confederate soldiers.
The White House and Museum of the Confederacy
Richmond, Virginia | This museum is the preeminent center for the display, study, interpretation and commemoration of Confederate history and artifacts.
Richmond National Battlefield Park
Richmond, Virginia | The Richmond area was the site of several of the most consequential battles of the American Civil War.
The Valentine Richmond History Center
Richmond, Virginia | The museum has been collecting, preserving and interpreting Richmond, Virginia's 400-year history for more than a century.
Glendale Battlefield and Visitors Center
Richmond, Virginia | Part of the National Park Service, it was here, on June 30, 1862, on the sixth day of the Seven Days' Battles, that the disorganized attack of the Army of Northern Virginia across White Oak Swamp was repulsed by the Army of the Potomac.
The American Civil War Center at Historic Tredegar
Richmond, Virginia | Located on the site of Tredegar Iron Works, the museum is the nation's first museum to explore the war from Union, Confederate and African American perspectives.
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