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Saturday, May 2, 2020

Greenville mule got a Yankee's goat

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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...
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Friday, May 1, 2020

Yankee raider plundered heart of a Carolina girl

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Thirty years after the Civil War skirmish at her family home, Caty Moore Callahan Long (1847-1904) and her second husband Billy Long (1848...
Monday, April 20, 2020

The battle of Anderson, revisited

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This is the 163-year-old flag that the Arsenal cadets rallied around in the "Battle of Anderson." It is displayed at The ...
Sunday, April 12, 2020

Cavalry vs. Calvary: Not a hill to die on

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Etched in stone: Note the spelling correction on the seventh line of this marker  Forty years ago, a British country singer named Paul ...
Friday, April 10, 2020

Extra! Extra! Read all about it!

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Yankees published  this 4-column extra  May 6, 1865, while they occupied Athens .    If you are reading The Stoneman Gazette on yo...
Sunday, September 29, 2019

Salisbury's markers may not be replaced

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The markers on the left and right have disappeared SALISBURY, N.C.   Salisbury was the military climax of Stoneman's Raid . On ...
Sunday, April 8, 2018

Boone honors its fallen 'Home Yankees'

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New stones mark the graves of John Maricle, Henry Evans, and William Bradley in the Boone Cemetery. The haversack and canteen on Evans...
Tuesday, March 27, 2018

Attorney & general: Little sister's big day

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Kate Stoneman became the first female lawyer in New York  Twenty years after the Civil War, George Stoneman was the governor of Califor...
Saturday, February 17, 2018

Emma's War: Teaching the Yankees a lesson

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This illustration by Steve Jenkins portrays Emma Rankin grabbing the reins of a Union cavalryman as she protects the Carson House, where s...
Monday, January 15, 2018

Revisiting the death of Jacob Mast Councill

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 History has given us conflicting accounts of the death of Jacob Mast Councill, the Boone civilian who was one of the first casualties of St...
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...
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