The fighting of the American Civil War ultimately ... during the Battle of Vicksburg, the Union Army pushed further south with its aim now on the Mississippi River. The Mississippi River was ...

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

Intense drought conditions are causing water levels of the 2,300-mile-long Mississippi ... shoreline of the river on Saturday, relic collector Riley Bryant found Civil War-era bullets and a ...