Charles Minnigerode News Today

The longtime tradition began in 1915, when townspeople gathered on Christmas to pray, sing carols and light their first community tree. Over the years, the event has continued to grow.

The Williamsburg community gathered again for Colonial Williamsburg's annual Christmas Tree Lighting Ceremony.

ENTRY SUMMARY The Appomattox Campaign, March 29–April 9, 1865, consisted of a series of engagements south and west of the Confederate capital at Richmond that ended in the surrender by Robert E. Lee of the Army of Northern Virginia during the American Civil War (1861–1865). During his Overland Campaign the previous spring, Union general-in-chief Ulysses S. Grant had relentlessly pursued Lee before settling into a ten-month siege of the Confederate transportation hub at Petersburg, south of ...