SHREVEPORT, La. (KTAL/KMSS) – To understand why there was a need for the civil rights era in Shreveport, scholars don’t simply look at the 1950s and 1960s. They delve into the murky waters of ...

ATHENS, Alabama – A little more than 150 years ago, Athens was embroiled in a pivotal battle whose outcome would decide if the Civil War would continue to be fought as a gentleman’s war, or ...

If you're the same check out the Alabama Civil War Trail ... Athens-Limestone Chamber of Commerce 101 S. Beaty St., Athens 256-232-2600, www.tourathens.com.

Image of John Achilles Harris of Athens, Louisiana, a Civil War soldier who died in 1864 while fighting ... Alabama. Achilles of Athens asked for locks of his childrens’ hair and wrote to Becky ...

Nov. 27—Garth Lovvorn Sr.'s home in Athens will be 200 years old in 2024, and he has a simple explanation for why it wasn't destroyed by Union soldiers during the Civil War. "My home was not ...

ATHENS, Ala. - People gathered today in Athens to remember a man who may have been the very first Alabama Veteran.John Wade Keyes fought in the revolutionary war and lived through 1839. He is now ...

Achilles Harris was a husband, father, and private from a town named Athens in Claiborne Parish, Louisiana. He wrote home to his wife Rebecca from the start of the American Civil War, when he left ...

Achilles of Athens is buried where he fell at the Battle of Atlanta, which is now a polite little neighborhood with a historic marker located between homes.