The Civil War began when the Confederates bombarded Union soldiers at Fort Sumter, South Carolina on April 12, 1861.

The Mississippi River continues to unveil more relics from ... relic collector Riley Bryant found Civil War-era bullets and a union U.S. cartridge box plate, according to an interview he gave ...

The Civil War was well underway when the Confederacy ... when the areas under its control west of the Mississippi River were placed under a separate command or “department” called the ...

“After the Civil War, the railroads explode,” Anfinson ... emptying into the Mississippi river thousands upon thousands of tons of solid and liquid filth … yearly is one to make angels ...

Mississippi is a state with an abundance of military history, especially in Central Mississippi. Many of the area’s most ...

In the early hours of April 27, 1865, mere days after the end of the Civil War, the Sultana burst into flames along the ...

No Union victory in the Civil War came easier than the capture of New Orleans. When Union forces sailed up the Mississippi River in 1862 — just over a year after Louisiana seceded — the city ...

The Old Warren County Court House, built in 1858, survived Union shelling during the Civil War. Just over 40 miles west of Jackson and perched on the bluffs of the Mississippi River, the small ...

The Mississippi River is considered the most endangered in the U.S. due to uncertainty over the Federal Emergency Management ...

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers will begin daily levee patrols from Baton Rouge to Venice as the Mississippi River is ...