With Louisiana’s militias off fighting in Virginia and Tennessee, the job of defending the Crescent City fell to two forts ...

At its most prepared, Fort Point bristled with weaponry: nine 10-inch and seventeen 8-inch Columbiads, eleven 32-pounder ...

Plans have been lodged to display a World War Two fort excavated at an airfield. Silloth Tourism Action Group has applied to Cumberland Council for permission to display a Hamilton-Pickett fort on ...

Today was day two of the annual “Spring Civil War Encampment” at the Fort Scott National Historic Site. The public was ...

Today’s column picks up where last Monday’s ended as we look back at the week before the first shots of the Civil War were fired at Fort Sumter. We left off on April 6, 1861, when the first ...

The goal was to follow a city master plan of improving ... the public.” Fort Pemberton was built to be used as one of several defense systems during the American Civil War, although it never ...