When Union forces sailed up the Mississippi River in ... History had other ideas. Fort Jackson was the site of a decisive Union victory in the Civil War portrayed in this birds-eye-view etching.

By Febrary 1, 1861, six more states -- Mississippi ... attacked Fort Sumter, a federal stronghold in Charleston, South Carolina. Federal troops returned the fire. The Civil War had begun.

We set out to metal detect around a Mississippi plantation house from the 1850s—but nothing could prepare us for what we found. From old silver coins and Civil War-era relics to unexplained events ...

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

Intense drought conditions are causing water levels of the 2,300-mile-long Mississippi ... Fort Pickering, a base used for shipping by both Confederates and the Union over the course of the Civil War.

In the 19th century, over 250,000 Native Americans lived in the Great Plains -- between the Mississippi and Rocky Mountains. After the Civil War ... the Treaty of Fort Laramie granted the Sioux ...

But this small square of tattered, tawny fabric is believed to be a piece of the flag Union troops hoisted above Fort Sumter to announce their surrender — and the start of the Civil War.

The Battle of Fort Sumter started on April 12 ... states pushed the Confederacy further from a win in the Civil War. The Trans-Mississippi Theater is often forgotten in Civil War history, though ...

Johnston's experiences during the Civil War ... the first two years of the war, and comprises two "books", one on Johnston's role in operations in Virginia and adjacent areas in 1861-1862, and one on ...