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 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 ...

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

The fighting of the American Civil War ultimately reached nearly every state in the Northern and Southern territories, with ...

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 ...

The New Madrid Historical Museum in Missouri celebrates 50 years, showcasing the town's rich history from Native American ...

The Deep South is at once gothic and glamorous, steeped in history, hauntings and a hell of a lot of soul. I sailed through ...

Altogether, Twain spent four years steaming up and down the Mississippi. When the Civil War broke out ... A term used in river navigation, "mark twain" means water that is two fathoms (or ...