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

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

Edward Otho C. Ord was a major general in the Union army during the Civil War and commanded the Department of Arkansas and the Fourth Military District during Reconstruction.

But even though I have a hard time envisioning these historic events occurring in my hometown as it is today, sometimes when ...

There are monuments to it in seven states; there’s even a museum in Arkansas, but America’s greatest maritime disaster never ...

After serving the Union cause as a pilot for the rest of the Civil War, he returned to South Carolina ... was shot down,” someone wrote from Vicksburg, Mississippi. Bruce’s correspondence ...

The riverboat captain is a storyteller. Captain Don Sanders shares the stories of his long association with the river — from ...

Pioneer D.A. Blodgett, know for medical facilities in Grand Rapids, left southern Osceola County and central Michigan with ...