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 ...

One such story revisits the notorious “Vicksburg Gamblers,” a group of rowdy card players who disrupted a Fourth of July ...

The March meeting of the Rufus Barringer Civil War Round Table will be held on Thursday, April 17, at 7 p.m., at the Civic Club, on the corner of Pennsylvania ...

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.

Old Post Files is a regular feature within the pages of The Vicksburg Post’s print edition and digital e-edition. This ...

The year: 1861. The problem: Pro-slavery states had broken away from the Union, rising up in armed revolt as the treasonous ...

The fall of Vicksburg, Mississippi, on July 4, 1863, proved a crucial turning point of the Civil War, although it took Union forces nearly seven months to capture the city. Dr. Chris Mackowski, ...