Civil War

Recent ceremonies honored the memory of 18 Black soldiers and two white officers who fought for the Union and were killed or wounded in 1864 by irregular Confederate soldiers.

During the Yazoo Pass expedition of the Civil War, Union Admiral Porter wrote that his flagship Cincinnati ran into a six-hundred-yard bed of willows…

The Civil War citadel of Vicksburg fell on July 4, 1863. On that day, Confedearte regiments marched out one at a time and stacked their arms. Of that…

Spells of harsh winter weather occasionally disrupt the daily lives of many people in Louisiana. Technological advancements in the last 100 years,…

Louisiana State University Press has released a new Civil War book by Dr. Terry L. Jones, professor emeritus of history at the University of Louisiana…

A court is expected to hear arguments on whether New Orleans should be able to remove four Confederate monuments.The case will be heard Wednesday by a…

A saddled horse standing beside a giant eastern cottonwood is the subject of a nitrate-based cellulose negative given to me by the man who took the shot…

Until the middle of the 20th century, few people in the South escaped an occasional medicinal dosing of a chemical derived by intentionally injuring…

Vultures get a bad rap. At best they are thought of as nature's garbage men - not a bad label, by the way. At worst they are considered dirty, disease…

In the midst of the Civil War, Kate Stone, a fierce advocate of the southern cause, wrote from a plantation near Tallulah, "The plums and sassafras are in…