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

The veteran of a dozen battles was killed at Petersburg, just before the war's end. Born on his family's estate west of Culpeper, Virginia ... During the Civil War, Hill was among the highest ...

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 ...

An enormous cache of recently discovered Civil War letters and other 19th century documents has been donated to Virginia Tech by ... future Confederate Gen. A.P. Hill, Bell said.

Mississippi honors those who fought for the Confederacy against the United States in the Civil War. Who tried to drop the state holiday?

Intense drought conditions are causing water levels of the 2,300-mile-long Mississippi River to drop ... relic collector Riley Bryant found Civil War-era bullets and a union U.S. cartridge box ...

An example of such a post (archived) on social media was shared to X on Feb. 26, 2025, and read, in part: The Devil's Punchbowl in Natchez, Mississippi, was a Civil War-era death camp.