Creating an Irish Civil War Widow
On the 20th July 1864, the 33rd New Jersey Infantry of the Army of the Cumberland found themselves at Peachtree Creek, outside Atlanta. They were gathered on a hill some 300 yards in front of the main Union position acting as an outpost for their brigade. Their...News From Around the South 7/21 – 7/28
VIRGINIA: SCV Demands Apology from Washington & Lee LEXINGTON, Va. — The Stonewall Brigade, Sons of Confederate Veterans Camp #1296 is calling upon Washington & Lee University President, Kenneth P. Ruscio, to apologize for what it calls the...Hiking the Civil War's Battlefields
FREDERICK, Md. — About 150 years after the “Battle That Saved Washington,” journalist and Civil War buff Keith White leads a dozen friends on a tour of the farmland south of here where Union forces led by Maj. Gen. Lew Wallace were credited with delaying the...News From Around the South 7/14 – 7/21
TENNESSEE: “Bubba” Goes Out with a Bang MT. JULIET, Tenn. – To say Harold Dee ‘Bubba’ Jones went out with a bang is a bit of an understatement. Jones, of Lebanon, operated construction machinery and drove large trucks. He was killed in an accident June 23....Obiter Dicta
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