Tuesday, March 4, 2025

'The better angels of our nature'

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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...
Thursday, January 16, 2025

Civil War hooks in my new book

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Order at McFarlandBooks.com/LeConte-Lodge  McFarland Books recently published LeConte Lodge / A Centennial History of a Smoky Mountain Landm...
Monday, April 15, 2024

'You are the man who caused all this trouble?'

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   This past weekend marked the 163rd anniversary of the 1861 attack on Fort Sumter, which is a historical touchstone for many of our reader...
Thursday, August 18, 2022

Penning heads on Civil War tales

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 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...
Tuesday, December 1, 2020

'Angel of mercy' behind Anderson's monument

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