A Kentucky farmer stumbled on one of the biggest troves of Civil War gold coins ever found, fuelling the dreams of treasure ...

Outside of historians, academics and the generational memories of Black New Orleanians, relatively few people understand the ...

The Dimitry family subsequently became prominent in New Orleans commerce and government. Andrea Dimitry fought with US General Andrew Jackson against the British in the Battle of New Orleans ... prior ...

The pair was accused of giving fraudulent appraisals on the programme, aiming to enhance their reputation as experts in Civil War-era weapons ... For instance, at New Orleans Auctions Galleries ...

This museum, the city's oldest, gives a thoroughly southern perspective of the Civil War. Travel further back in time at the Cabildo Museum in Jackson Square in the French Quarter to learn about the ...

From her own accounts, Velazquez disguised herself as a man in order to fight in the Civil War ... New Orleans history on Saturday mornings. Sign up for free Historians learned about Velazquez’s ...

(KTAL/KMSS) – During the American Civil War, eleven Southern cities were ... The Union’s Last Attempt to Invade Texas, and The Battle of New Orleans: A Bicentennial Tribute.

Bixby agreed to take Clemens, then 21, on as a cub pilot or apprentice in navigating the Mississippi from St. Louis to New Orleans ... debt after the U.S. Civil War began in 1861.

And the twentieth-century struggle for civil rights in the South, particularly in the Deep South, has its roots not in the late 19th century but in the Civil War ... The Battle of New Orleans ...

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