He kayaks into a creek known for Civil War activity, but the first thing he finds is exactly what he feared: endless railroad junk. Spikes, cans, bottles, camp trash, and modern debris make the hunt ...

This creek hunt starts with high hopes for Civil War relics, but the water quickly proves messy and frustrating. Most of the signals turn into farm wire, cans, homemade sinkers, old bottles, and ...

Relic hunters scouring a farm field south of Fredericksburg, Virginia, were turning up the usual Civil War artifacts when ...

RICHMOND -- A Civil War relic hunter killed in an explosion in February was cleaning a cannonball when a spark ignited black powder within the ancient ordnance, a federal investigation concluded ...