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With Louisiana’s militias off fighting in Virginia and Tennessee, the job of defending the Crescent City fell to two forts ...
A cannonball is lodged in a historic Mississippi church, but was it fired by the Civil War gunboat USS Rattler?
Join us as we step back into history at a Civil War Confederate camp alongside dedicated reenactors from the 48th Alabama ...
Crowned the oldest city on the Mississippi, this southern charmer with the most antebellum houses in the U.S. is a must-visit ...
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A conservation group on Wednesday named the Mississippi River the “most endangered river of 2025,” citing threats to abolish ...
"People were jumping out of the windows." The Civil War was raging and the Union gunboat USS Rattler had been patrolling the Mississippi River near Rodney, Mississippi, and St. Joseph, Louisiana.