The Pea Ridge National Military Park in Arkansas offers reenactments and insights into the pivotal 1862 Civil War battle that ...

Microfilm of the records in the U.S. National Archives. Title on containers: Tecumseh, Civil War Monitor reproduction. Includes selected items from Record group 19, Records of the Bureau of Ships; RG ...

VICKSBURG, Miss. (WJTV) – While Americans celebrate July 4 as the nation’s birthday, the date also holds a separate, pivotal place in Mississippi history. That date is memorialized at the Vicksburg ...

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At the National Civil War Naval Museum in Columbus, Georgia, we got the rare chance to fire an original Brooke rifled naval cannon built in 1865. Designed near the end of the Civil War, this massive ...

One might well wonder why an inland city was selected as the site of a Civil War naval museum. The answer is twofold. The first part involves the strategic location and industrial resources of ...