The LSU Osher Lifelong Learning Institute will host Eddie Vaugh, member of the Baton Rouge Civil War Round Table, 2:30 p.m.

The Civil War was newly ended, and steamboats were regularly traveling up the Mississippi River to take soldiers back to their homes. One such steamboat, the Sultana, left Vicksburg on April 24 to ...

They brought with them slaves to do the backbreaking work of clearing the wild forest and subduing the Mississippi River with levees ... after the Civil War, the state became among the most ...

American Cruise Lines also offers the longest Mississippi River cruise in the country. The Civil War Battlefields itinerary visits 13 states and all three major theaters of the Civil War ...

Housed in the restored Jefferson Barracks 1905 Post Exchange Building, the Missouri Civil War Museum is the oldest active military installation west of the Mississippi River. Within the 22,000 ...

A first-of-its-kind project seeking to restore river ecosystems along 39 miles of the Lower Mississippi River has federal ...