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

VICKSBURG, Miss. (AP) — 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 ...

A Civil War battlefield in Mississippi is providing more information about Black history. Recent ceremonies honored the memory of 18 Black soldiers and two white officers who fought for the Union ...

Civil War-Era Relics Found in Drought-Hit Mississippi River: 'Almost Gave Me a Heart Attack,' Collector Says Intense drought conditions are causing water levels of the 2,300-mile-long Mississippi ...

Union military forces used the island throughout the remainder of the Civil War. By spring of 1862, the island harbored up to 18,000 U.S. troops, and was used in the Union's capture of New Orleans.

More than 17,000 of them fought for the Union in the Civil War, including more than 5,500 Black soldiers, designated by the U.S. War Department in 1863 as United States Colored Troops.