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9285 Warwick Boulevard
Newport News, VA 23607, USA

Website: www.warmuseum.org

The Virginia War Museum offers a comprehensive review of U.S. military history since 1775 and within this context provides its visitors with a detailed survey of the Civil War.

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Fort Monroe, Virginia | This museum is located within the moat area of Fort Monroe, America's largest stone fort.
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Yorktown, Virginia | This park possesses extensive vestiges of the Revolutionary and Civil Wars.
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.
Berkeley Plantation at Harrison's Landing
Charles City, Virginia | This historic plantation was occupied by George McClellan's Union troops in 1862.
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Williamsburg, Virginia | This site is renowned as the nation's largest living history museum.
Endview Plantation
Newport News, Virginia | Built in 1769, this plantation functioned as a Confederate hospital and headquarters for Gens. McLaws and Toombs during the Peninsula Campaign of 1862.
The Mariners' Museum
Newport News, Virginia | Designated by Congress as America's National Maritime Museum, this site is home to the USS Monitor Center.
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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