The weapon, a .38-caliber long rifle was used by William Ross during the Battle of New Orleans in the War of 1812, the assistant to the curator of the Confederate Museum Joseph Ricci said during a ...

This Saturday is the 190th anniversary of the American victory over the British at the Battle at New Orleans ... but after the Civil War, the holiday became less widely celebrated and is now ...

The battle of New Orleans was celebrated nationally for decades. That changed after the Civil War. So did the belief in its significance. It began to be referred to as unnecessary, after the fact ...

The demolition of New Orleans’s monument to the members ... monument wasn’t anything that happened during the Civil War. The Battle of Liberty Place was a major incident in the white southern ...

On Jan. 8, we celebrate the anniversary of the Battle of New Orleans, which ended the War of 1812 with the British ... Dick Reithmiller is a retired civil engineer and avid history buff.

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A Spanish cannon used in the Battle of New Orleans and weighing ... Those date from the Civil War, when the cannon was used at Fort St. John as part of the unsuccessful ...