With Louisiana’s militias off fighting in Virginia and Tennessee, the job of defending the Crescent City fell to two forts ...

After the Civil War millions ... river water—conditions that also took the lives of Union soldiers. African Americans who enlisted in the Union Army lived in barracks inside Fort McPherson ...

Unlike Davis’ Mississippi ... to depart the Union, Virginia followed. As a result, the proud, conservative Old Dominion would be the bloodiest battleground of the Civil War—and the first ...

History: Florida paid dearly for its role in the Civil War, winding up both broken and broke for years afterward ...

American Rivers, a nonprofit environmental advocacy organization, named the Mississippi River the "most endangered river" of 2025. The group publishes a list yearly of at-risk rivers that the ...

FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) — In honor of Women’s History Month, local historical society chapters paid tribute to Civil War nurse and Fort ... Wolff served as a Union Army nurse in military ...

In the last few days we’ve heard what sound like the opening salvos of a Democratic Party civil war. After losing two of the last three presidential elections to Donald Trump, self-reflection is ...

South Sudan is on the verge of another civil war, the UN’s top official in the ... including the African Union. Haysom said the collective message of the regional and international community ...

A cannonball is lodged in a historic Mississippi church, but was it fired by the Civil War gunboat USS Rattler?