Anderson Intelligencer, May 30, 1900  Could the same man have fired the first and last shots of the Civil War? That's the implication of...

Commemorating the 1875 centennial of the original 'Shot Heard Round the World,' this Minuteman statue in Lexington, Massachusetts, w...

March 4, 1861  Eight-score and four years ago, the United States of America was at a crossroads. Seven of the 34 states had seceded after th...

Order at McFarlandBooks.com/LeConte-Lodge  McFarland Books recently published LeConte Lodge / A Centennial History of a Smoky Mountain Landm...

   This past weekend marked the 163rd anniversary of the 1861 attack on Fort Sumter, which is a historical touchstone for many of our reader...

 They don't make headlines like they used to.  As dying newspapers lay off the ink-stained wretches on the copy desks, we may never see...

Anderson's Confederate memorial Lenora Hubbard (portrait from Hannibal Johnson's book) ANDERSON, S.C.  My grandmother...

Spanish American War veteran William Harbottle plays taps in 1953 for Sgt. William Magee. ( Los Angeles Times photo ) Magee with his...

The 200-year-old Rock House was built by Capt. Billy Young, a hero of the American Revolution Some of the Union cavalry crossed the...

Thirty years after the Civil War skirmish at her family home, Caty Moore Callahan Long (1847-1904) and her second husband Billy Long (1848...