Civil War-era homeless shelter in Louisiana took in elderly freedwomen. ... Joanna stated that there was on “Old Ladies Home” ...

A woman was magnet fishing by Swift Creek in Colonial Heights when she pulled in something completely unexpected — a live Civil War-era cannonball.

Women, white and black, did double duty — farm work as well as all the domestic labor. In her book “Scarlett Doesn’t Live Here Anymore: Southern Women in the Civil War Era,” Edwards describes white ...

Snoop Dogg is using his celebrity for the greater good, donating thousands to help a 93-year-old at risk of being evicted from her family’s Civil War-era home in South Carolina.

McWhirter said the Supreme Court’s opinion suggests that Civil War-era law reflects the “will of the people,” but that’s wrong. “No woman could vote and no woman was in the ...

Review: Civil War-era ‘Jackal’s Mistress’ finds Chris Bohjalian hitting repeat Fiction: A Confederate woman takes in a Union soldier in romantic thriller. By Maren Longbella ...