But for reasons unknown, up to 7 feet of riverbed has been scoured away, excavating parts of the 130-foot-long ship not seen since it sank in 1862, according to Nathan Richards, director of the ...

Shutterstock Russell Gregory’s Murder at Cades Cove Russell Gregory moved to Cades Cove, Tennessee in the early 1840s from ...

A new collection of primary source documents, "The 1863 Stibbs Family Civil War Era Letters," is the third set of letters ...

Slavery Patrols The USS Constellation splashed into the water at Gosport Navy Yard in Virginia on August 26, 1854. This ...

Francis Ernest Dumas was a wealthy soldier who became the highest ranking Black combat officer during the Civil War.

For Confederate Army scout with Powhatan ties, life after the Civil War was devoted to spreading the word of God—and to ...