The Devil's Punchbowl in Natchez, Mississippi, was a Civil War-era death camp. After the Civil War millions of freed Black ...

The Mississippi River continues ... were found used to be Fort Pickering, a base used for shipping by both Confederates and the Union over the course of the Civil War. The historian, 63, also ...

Initial Union attempts ... the Battle of Fort Sumter began the Civil War. The Anaconda Plan included both a blockade of the Confederate coast and a seizure of the Mississippi River.

After the US Civil War began ... control of the Mississippi River, which flowed into the Gulf of Mexico at the city. After the Battle of Fort Sumter in April 1861, the Union had placed a naval ...