Did you know:That Jefferson Davis was born on a farm in Ky?That he was the 10th and youngest child of Samuel Davis (1755-1824) who was a descendant of a Welsh family that had settled originally in New Jersey, and he was [...]
This "time line" of slavery is, in part taken from a talk prepared by Cameron Freeman Napier in 1993 and updated in 1997. I have not researched this but found it interesting. She points out that there was slavery, as we know, in Biblical times. [...]
Yesterday I gave the time line for some of the causes of the War, based on a paper Mrs. John Napier wrote and am continung with this line of thinking.She says Western Expansion was one of the major causes of the [...]
This information is taken from Mrs. John H. Napier, former Regent of the First White House of the Confederacy. She notes that from the beginning there was antipathy between the kinds of people who settled New England and the folks [...]
The web tonight said that under withering opposition from hundreds of historians, Wal-Mart has abandoned plans to build a Supercenter near the Civil War site where Robert E. Lee first met Ulysses S. Grant in 1864 in "The Battle of the Wilderness".The plans [...]
Judge Walter B. Jones (1888 - 1963) was a well-respected Alabama judge, legislator and writer. He founded the Thomas Goode Jones School of Law in Montgomery which was named after his father, an alumnus of the Virginia Military Institute, veteran of [...]
George Mason was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. A Virginia statesman, he drafted the Virginia Declaration of Rights in 1776. He was a leader of those who pressed for explicit States rights and individual rights in the U.S. [...]
Robert Bradley of the Alabama Department of Archives and History gave a wonderful talk last week, as I mentioned in my Jan 21 blog. He shared with us a compilation of names that have been used to describe the 1861-65 [...]
Haven't we all wondered what would have happened if the Confederacy had won The War? For one thing, we would call it what it was, The War Between The States, not The Civil War.Newt Gingrich recently written a book called [...]
"A Government of Our Own" by William C. Davis stands as the definitive treatment of the formation of the Southern Confederacy.Much as The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes fascinates us, so does this marvelous book - prodigiously researched and possessing a diverse cast of [...]