With Louisiana’s militias off fighting in Virginia and Tennessee, the job of defending the Crescent City fell to two forts ...

The capture ... beginning of the war, that it is associated, the world over, with the very substance of the war, and bears, as no other spot does, its "form and impress," -- Richmond came to ...

As a result, the proud, conservative Old Dominion would be the bloodiest battleground of the Civil War—and the first ... General [Benjamin] Butler had captured Richmond and the Rebels had ...

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Two months before the Civil War ended, a Confederate soldier was ... The incendiary plot began when Kennedy, who had been captured by Union troops back in 1863, escaped from a military prison ...

A brigadier general in the Union Army who would go on to receive the Medal of Honor in 1892 for gallantry during the Civil ... Union's bid to capture the Confederate capital, Richmond ...

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1865—Black regiments led an as­sault on and eventually captured a key Southern fort helping bring the Civil War to an end. The nine regiments led by Gen. John Hawkins smashed through Confederate ...

That’s James River State Park in Gladstone, Virginia – 1,500 acres of pure, unadulterated natural splendor that somehow ...