John T. Wilder was a New York native who left home at age nineteen determined to make it on his own. He eventually settled in Greensburg, Indiana, where he established a profitable foundry and became […]
Brick stable behind the president’s house at Washington and Lee University in Lexington, VA. It was built in 1869 for Robert E. Lee’s famous war horse, Traveller, while Lee was president of the then Washington […]
The first produced model of the second National Flag of the Confederacy, as adopted in 1863. The flag was originally intended to fly over the capitol building in Richmond but was used instead to drape the casket […]
The American Civil War had its share of intriguing characters, many of whom had colorful nicknames to match. Some received their monikers out of respect and admiration, while others were labeled out of contempt or […]
As the most popular post on this blog continues to be the one discussing the Confederate service of Devil Anse Hatfield, it seems appropriate to also examine the record of Randolph “Randall” McCoy, his chief […]
Forty-one-year-old Robert Selden Garnett was a newly minted brigadier general in the Confederate army when he was sent to western Virginia in June 1861 to command the Department of Northwestern Virginia. Often confused with his […]
General James Longstreet and his chief of staff, Lt. Col. Moxley Sorrel, only referred to him as “Harrison.” Regarded by some as a “scout” and others a “spy,” the mysterious Henry Thomas Harrison would play […]
On June 20, 1863, Arthur I. Boreman was sworn in as the first governor of the new State of West Virginia. Becoming the 35th state of the Union, West Virginia was carved out of the […]
Mary Edwards Walker was born in Oswego County, New York in 1832 and graduated as the only woman in her class from the Syracuse Medical College in 1855. At the outbreak of the Civil War […]
On April 29, 1866, former Union general John A. Logan was asked to be the keynote speaker at an event in his hometown of Carbondale, IL. The event was a community observance for Civil War […]
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