The new cyclorama, representing the assault upon Vicksburg, May 23. 1863, by the forces of Grant in co-operation with the fleet of gunboats under Porter, was exhibited to invited guests at the ...

The Vicksburg National Military Park today stretches over 1800 acres worth of ravines, woods, and fields. The Vicksburg ...

The Friends of the Vicksburg National Military Park and Campaign wasted no time beginning work to restore a “historic” ...

VICKSBURG, Miss. — Thelma Sims Dukes grew up during the 1940s and ‘50s in a segregated Mississippi town steeped in Civil War history. As a small Black girl, she would walk to school through ...

One of three major Civil War battles involving at least 100,000 engaged forces, the Battle of Resaca in northwestern Georgia – along an important transportation route of the Western & Atlantic ...

War artifacts are typically weapons and uniforms, but occasionally something so strange shows up, that even historians are at ...

On July 4, 1863, after 47 days of battle, Lt. General John Pemberton’s Confederate troops surrendered to General Ulysses S.

An actual number has never been firmed up. It’s estimated that around 620,000 men were killed. In 2011, historian J. David ...

One hundred sixty years ago, a series of battles and engagements in Virginia between the Rapidan and James Rivers determined the outcome of America’s Civil War. It is known as the Overland ...

The Civil War ended in 1865, but for Minnesota and the one-time rebel state of Virginia, the battle continues over a prized ...

A Civil War battlefield in Mississippi is providing more information about Black history.