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 […]
On the morning of May 10, 1863, one hundred and fifty years ago today, the weather around Guiney Station, Virginia was warm and pleasant. But inside a small, white frame building on the Fairfield plantation, […]
On the night of May 2, 1863 – the second day of the battle of Chancellorsville – Stonewall Jackson decided to personally reconnoiter the ground in front of his line in anticipation of renewing his […]
On April 20, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln signed a proclamation, effective in sixty days, admitting West Virginia into the Union as the 35th state. Formation of the state, however, had required some creative legal maneuvering […]
In May 2012, a researcher working for The Papers of Abraham Lincoln project discovered a document in the National Archives many historians knew existed but had never found. It was the initial account of army […]
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