As we celebrate our nation’s independence, many may be surprised to learn that a Revolutionary War battle took place in ...

In January of that year, as the Civil War was coming to an end, a group of Black soldiers with the 5th United States Colored Calvary out of Camp Nelson were herding cattle to Louisville when they ...

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On Apr. 4, 1968, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr was shot and killed outside of his Memphis, Tennessee motel room. As word of the killing spread in cities across the United States, riots began to break ...

McMahan, who served in the Second Tennessee Cavalry, was killed in action on Feb. 11, 1865, during the Battle of Aiken. For many years, his identity remained unknown while he lay buried in the ...

His longevity, along with his unbelievable racing venues, occurred between 1845-1860, which were the pre-Civil War years, dating from 1861 to 1865.

Her father was Silas D. Mason, a New Englander who enlisted in the Maine cavalry in Belfast, Maine, in February 1864. He was discharged at the end of the war in Washington, D.C.

Much has been written about the war experiences of Major William Gibbs Allen of Rhea County, but perhaps a most notable account can be obtained from an article he wrote for the Hamilton County Herald ...

Rhea County is rich in history, and many family names are associated with the early years of its formation. However, historical data would not be of any significance if it were not for historians who ...

Claude Jarman Jr., a former child star who won a juvenile Academy Award for his performance in “The Yearling,” as a lonely towheaded boy who adopts an orphaned fawn, died Jan. 12 at his home ...

Roughly 45 miles south of Nashville, close to the bull’s-eye of Tennessee, the city of Columbia was once a bustling hive of commerce during the antebellum era, just prior to the Civil War, and ...