The fighting of the American Civil War ultimately reached nearly every state in the Northern and Southern territories, with ...

The Civil War was newly ended, and steamboats were regularly traveling up the Mississippi River to take soldiers back to their homes. One such steamboat, the Sultana, left Vicksburg on April 24 to ...

Two years into the Civil War, black soldiers prepared for battle ... served as the linchpin of Confederate control over the Lower Mississippi. Among the Union regiments attacking the well ...

he gives us some little glimpses into the lives of people on both sides – soldiers, citizens, those enslaved – affected by the raid. A very valuable contribution to the literature of the Vicksburg ...

He left Edinburgh and moved to Mississippi as a 14-year-old ... Edinburgh has another memorial to the soldiers who died in the US Civil War, in Old Calton Burial Ground, depicting Abraham Lincoln ...