There are many reasons I pity today’s younger generation of Americans.
Among them are:
—The unconscionable debt we are leaving them.
—The obliteration [...]
News From Around the South 11/12 to 11/19
TENNESSEE: Stones River Battlefield Delivers Civil War History
NASHVILLE — “So this is the Battlefield, it really hasn’t changed much since [...]
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NICHOLASVILLE, Ky. — When Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation to free slaves during the Civil War, it did not apply to Kentucky, one of the few slave states that did not join the Confederacy. But Elijah P. Marrs did not want to wait. He escaped slavery in September 1864 to join the Union Army […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Massacre at Fort Pillow
David Thomas Sr., deputy executive director of the Veteran Administration’s Office of Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization, says he removed this painting from his office after a Washington Post reporter made him aware that [...]
The Invisible Struggles of Civil War Veterans
Union soldiers sit on a hill overlooking camp at Cumberland Landing, VA 1862.
Colonel Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain was not supposed to survive the wounds he received at the Second Battle of Petersburg in the summer of 1864. [...]
