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?

The Mississippi River continues to unveil more relics from ... relic collector Riley Bryant found Civil War-era bullets and a union U.S. cartridge box plate, according to an interview he gave ...

After the Civil War millions of freed Black people were ... Federal officials in the Mississippi River Valley launched an experiment in wage labor for "contraband" blacks that tossed thousands ...

Join us as we step back into history at a Civil War Confederate camp alongside dedicated reenactors from the 48th Alabama ...

“After the Civil War, the railroads explode,” Anfinson ... emptying into the Mississippi river thousands upon thousands of tons of solid and liquid filth … yearly is one to make angels ...

They brought with them slaves to do the backbreaking work of clearing the wild forest and subduing the Mississippi River with levees ... after the Civil War, the state became among the most ...

"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.