In just over a month we will have an exciting Sesquicentennial Event occur in Montgomery, so please mark your calendars to welcome noted author and lecturer, William C. Davis on Thursday, May 5th.Mr. Davis will speak at Archi-Treats at 12:00 noon [...]
My friend Dr. Jack Kushner, who grew up in Montgomery and graduated with me from Lanier High School has written two books that deal with Civil War issues. I have mentioned one of them on my blog before, "When Universities Are Destroyed; How [...]
Twice as many men died of disease than of gunshot wounds in the Civil War. Doctors did not understand infection and there was a dreadful lack of hygiene in camp, which led to a breeding ground for dysentery, measles, small [...]
Colonel John Luther Branch, my great-grandfather, was a native of Abbeville, SC. He commanded a company of SC military Citadel cadets that fired the first shot of the War of Secession on the SS "Star of the West".Here is what was written in the [...]
The February 2011 issue of the Montgomery County Historical Society monthly magazine includes a story called "The Davis Family in Montgomery". This is a reprint of an article that originally appeared in the Montgomery Advertiser Feb 12, 1933 by Peter Brannon, the third [...]
Jefferson Davis was a hero, but maybe more so after the War, than during it, as is so often the case. In his later years, crowds thronged to see and hear him, and as you know, his funeral was reported to be the [...]
Have I told you about the fascinating book a friend sent us called Bloody Crimes - The Chase for Jefferson Davis and the Death Pageant for Lincoln's Corpse, by James Swanson? I have not actually been able to read it because [...]
Whenever stories about battles of the War Between the States were told, I always heard about the Rebel Yell, and I wondered what it sounded like. My Dad, in telling tales about the battles told me that his grandpa, a Confederate [...]
A question on Jeopardy last evening made me look up the Gatling gun on Wikipedia. This got me interested in the weapons used during the "Uncivil" War. According to the web, prior to the war, most infantry tactics were based on the use [...]
An article in the March 2011 Alabama Living, Dixie Electric Cooperative Magazine, written by John Brightman Brock, tells about making the First Confederate Flag. With the Provisional Congress already formed, a Committee on Flag and Seal was appointed, and citizens [...]