According to American Battlefield Trust, on Nov. 7, 1861, Brig. Gen. Grant led 3,114 Union soldiers to capture a Confederate outpost by the Mississippi River, due east of East Prairie, Missouri.

History buffs are visiting famous Civil War battle sites such as Gettysburg and Bull Run this year, to mark the 150th anniversary of the war's beginning. Missouri would like some of that attention ...

The Civil War diary of Confederate soldier Roysdon Roberson Etter, of the 16th Tennessee Infantry Regiment, includes an entry for Nov. 30, 1864, about the Battle of Franklin.

The Tennessee Department of Tourist Development announces the Tennessee Civil War Trails map-guides are now available, marking the upcoming 150th anniversary of the Civil War.

More than 1,000 battles took place in Missouri, making it the third-most fought-over state of the war, after Virginia and Tennessee. In 1861 alone, the war’s first year, 42% of all battles were ...

There are several other remaining Civil War sites in Knoxville, including the Bleak House, a Classic Revival-style manor house at 3148 Kingston Pike which General Longstreet used as his headquarters.

It also links narrative information about these events from the Tennessee Civil War Sourcebook. Complete accounts of all the state units that served in the war are searchable by county along with ...

Civil War-era bullets and a union U.S. cartridge box plate were lying around the rocks, just waiting to be picked up, he said. A Civil War union US cartridge box plate laying among the rocks of ...

RAYMOND, Mississippi -- John Saporito was raised in the South and has Confederate ancestors, but he proudly wears the blue uniform of the Union as he travels to Civil War sites to help re-enact ...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — The low water level in the Mississippi River is allowing modern-day treasure hunters to uncover Civil War relics along the river bank. Over the weekend, Riley Bryant found so… ...

A new online database and map details the role of black Tennesseans during the Civil War. Titled the "Landscape of Liberation," the interactive map pinpoints 150 places of interest, including ...

More than 1,000 battles took place in Missouri, making it the third-most fought-over state of the war, after Virginia and Tennessee. In 1861 alone, the war’s first year, 42% of all battles were ...