Sunday, May 28, 2017

Memorial Day: 'Your Dear Son is Dead'

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Union private Oliver Stebbins  The Civil War was nearly over when John and Charlotte Stebbins of Three Rivers, Michigan, sent their o...
Monday, May 1, 2017

Reasons for the war? How quickly we forget

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  This is not the first time a new president has needed a history lesson on the Civil War.  It also happened in May 1865, when the war was...
Saturday, April 8, 2017

Joan Baez: 'Till Stoneman's Cavalry came'

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This marker was erected Jan. 19, 1988 by the Sons of Confederate Veterans. They p robabl y didn't mean to celebrate a Yankee birthday...
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Tuesday, February 28, 2017

Remember when N.C. voted to save the Union?

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 Four days before the inauguration of Abraham Lincoln, North Carolina held a statewide referendum to decide whether to secede from the Union...
Sunday, January 15, 2017

Cowpens: Following the footsteps of liberty

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Stoneman's 1st Brigade probably visited the Scruggs homeplace on the Cowpens Battlefield COWPENS, S.C.   Americans are notoriou...
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Monday, December 5, 2016

1940: Roadside fame or cast-iron shame?

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Civ il War veterans clad in gray and blue meet across a rock wall  on Cemetery Ridge d uring the 75th anniversary of the B attle  of ...
Thursday, November 10, 2016

Vet's dilemma: Which side would he fight for?

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FLAG POND, Tenn.   One cold winter night in 1947, Anderson Moore was on his way to bed when he s tumbled and fel l . For the next five we...
Monday, October 24, 2016

The ghost of Della Barnes

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Della Barnes' truncated statue PADUCAH, Ky.  Della Barnes was a heartbreaker. One man gave her an expensive engagement ring, but s...