JACKSON, Miss. (WLBT) - A new Civil War Museum is coming to the city of Vicksburg in 2028. Planning and designing are underway for Vicksburg’s newest tourist attraction, an interpretive center.

American women would not be welcome as full-time military members until 1948, but those who really, really wanted to fight ...

JACKSON, Miss. (WLBT) - An architectural firm has been brought on to draw up plans for a new Civil War interpretive center in ...

Women presenting as men — whether to escape the stifling construct of feminine life or to stay close to husbands or brothers ...

Over the next few years, the Mississippi Department of Archives and History aims to revitalize some of the state's most ...

Military records reveal that women fought—and died—in all the major battles of the Civil War, participating in clashes in Antietam, Fredericksburg, Gettysburg, Shiloh, and Vicksburg ...

Carver County men answered the call to serve in the Civil War. In East Union, a small farm community just west of Carver, 78 men signed up. According to a 1908 ...

The Civil War was fought in 10,000 places ... and the state of Missouri sent 39 regiments to fight in the siege of Vicksburg: 17 to the Confederacy and twenty-two to the Union.