Re-enactors transformed the grassy area just west of VFW Park into two separate World War II battles Saturday. Participants ...

CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. (KFVS) - Heartland re-enactors are preserving the spirit of Memorial Day by giving the public a peak into the past. Re-enactors opened the Fort D Historic Site for Memorial Day ...

Houston Barnett wasn’t really a Civil War buff. A man he worked with though happened to be the captain of Company “B” 1st Tennessee Field Artillery Regiment or “Bankhead’s Battery,” ...

Civil War Reenactors Aren’t Just Play-Acting. They Expect a War. A visit to a battle reenactment in rural Virginia revealed some surprising views about U.S. politics—and broad pessimism about ...

Black re-enactors were unheard of 50 years ago during the Civil War centennial. But the story of the troops has emerged in the past 20 years thanks to new scholarship, the 1989 movie “Glory” and Ken ...

What we now call the Ark-La-Tex was controlled by Confederate Shreveport. The state government in exile from Missouri was located first in Shreveport and then in Marshall, Texas, 40 miles to the ...

CARTHAGE, Mo. — A reenactment of the Civil War battle that was called “the first serious conflict between United States troops and the rebels” will be staged Sunday.

Re-enactors bring historic Macklinds to life Wednesday evening The Farmington Historical Society will host a unique, first-person Civil War Program titled, “Missouri’s Forgotten Civil War ...

At the Camp Copperhead reenactment at Cabin Creek, camps will be open for visitors at 9 a.m. Saturday and Sunday, March 11-12, with battles at 1 p.m. At dusk Saturday, there will be an artillery fire ...

On Dec. 7, 1862, Confederate forces from Fort Smith and Union forces from Springfield, Mo., met and fought to a stalemate at the cost of more than 2,500 lives.

Missouri Department of Natural Resources and the Missouri Civil War Reenactors Association will be reenacting the Battle of Athens on August 6 and 7, 2022. The event is free and open to the public.