The Vicksburg National Military Park today stretches over 1800 acres worth of ravines, woods, and fields. The Vicksburg ...

Beginning on April 12, 1861, and ending on April 9, 1865, the American Civil War saw the Northern and Pacific states take on the Southern states that sought to secede from the union and form the ...

War artifacts are typically weapons and uniforms, but occasionally something so strange shows up, that even historians are at ...

Strategically located on the Mississippi River, ... March 1864, a month that saw three major Civil War battles with more than 100,000 engaged forces, ...

Shiloh National Military Park in Tennessee was the site of a bloody Civil War battle to control the Confederate Railroad ...

VICKSBURG, Miss. (AP) — Thelma Sims Dukes grew up during the 1940s and ‘50s in a segregated Mississippi town steeped in Civil War history. As a small Black girl, she would walk to school ...

Americans, on July 4th, celebrate the nation’s birthday, when the Continental Congress officially declared that the United States was no longer a British colony, but an independent country. It gained ...

In Southeast Missouri, close to the vital Mississippi River, the war was unavoidable. ... fought his first battle of the Civil War near the now-flooded town of Belmont in Mississippi County.

Mississippi alone saw many Civil War battles, including: Battles in 1862. April 29-June 10: Corinth. September 19: Iuka. October 3-4: Corinth. December 26-29: Chickasaw Bayou/Walnut Hills. Battles ...

A Civil War battlefield in Mississippi is providing more information about Black history. ... OK, I did know that," Dukes said. “But none of the battles like we are learning now.

More than 17,000 of them fought for the Union in the Civil War, including more than 5,500 Black soldiers, designated by the U.S. War Department in 1863 as United States Colored Troops.