The Stoneman Gazette
Monday, August 17, 2020

Sounding 'Taps' for Stoneman's last veteran

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