A bit of history was given life and breath Saturday as thousands of spectators watched a band of Civil War enthusiasts re-enact the lives, and sometimes deaths, of the soldiers who fought in 1862 ...

At this time in 1864, a large federal army had just returned to Little Rock after a desperate and nearly disastrous foray into south Arkansas. While reading a new book on this campaign I was ...

As the prospect of Civil War grew closer, Osterhaus enlisted as a private in the Second Missouri Volunteer Infantry (US) and took part in the arrest of secessionists at Camp Jackson on May 10, 1861.

In Civil War Arkansas, 1863, Mark K. Christ, the author of The Die Is Cast: Arkansas Goes to War, 1861, Ready, Booted, and Spurred: Arkansas in the U.S.- Mexican War, and several other works, gives us ...

Missouri was a border state during the American Civil War, and Missourians fought on both sides of the war. Battles raged across every corner of the state. In Southeast Missouri, close to the ...

BELLA VISTA -- Dale Phillips of the Bella Vista Civil War Round Table spoke to a large group May 6 night about the battles of Port Hudson and Baton Rouge in 1863.

Classes were suspended for most of the Civil War but that didn't mean the Knoxville campus went unused. Troops from both sides occupied it at times.

Natural scenery and cultural history abound at national parks in Arkansas. From colonial outposts and Civil War battlefi ...

The Honey Springs Battlefield in Checotah will be holding its annual memorial service on Saturday, July 19 at 10:30 a.m.

The Battle of Pea Ridge was fought in Northwest Arkansas on March 7 and 8, 1862.Hundreds of men were killed in the battle.The Union victory at Pea Ridge helped secure the west for the United ...

Pea Ridge National Military Park is located in Northwest Arkansas. The park preserves the site of a momentous Civil War ...

A peculiar southeast Arkansas farmhouse conceals an obscure treasure of agriculture, grit, and ingenuity behind its walls—a 19th century steamboat.