The dining room in the First White House is a warm and vibrant room. One would expect the Davis family to enter any time for dinner. At the windows are gold damask curtains with tambour lace under curtains of 100% cotton white, [...]
Richard told me about this excellent book about Judah P. Benjamin, often called "the brains of the Confederacy". Others blamed him for the South's defeat. He was born in the West Indies in 1811, the son of devout Jewish parents. [...]
New Orleans was the strongest card in the hand of the Confederacy at the outbreak of the War. But early in the morning of April 24th Farragut ran past two forts and made a run for New Orleans.After a duel [...]
Today I am going with cousins to Union Springs to visit our great-grandfather's grave. Colonel John Luther Branch was a professor at the Citadel in SC when he joined the Confederate Army.I have written about him before. He gave the [...]
The following is copied from Wikepedia: "Confederate Memorial Day, also known as Confederate Decoration Day (Tennessee) and Confederate Heroes Day (Texas), is an official holiday and/or observance day in parts of the U.S. South as a day to honor those [...]
Don't you wish you could have been there that April day when the massed ranks of Confederates appeared out of nowhere about 7 a.m., shouting the eerie "Rebel Yell"? They easily overran the outer Union camps, which were taken by complete [...]
It all started last weekend when a gentleman from the local Air Base stopped by the First White House of the Confederacy, and spotted an artillery shell in Mrs. Davis's New York bedroom upstairs. He felt the "bomb squad" should [...]
April 12-13, 1861 marks the bombardment and surrender of Fort Sumter, near Charleston that started the War Between the States, a war that claimed 620,000 men and devastated the South.. Following the secession of seven Southern states from the Union, [...]
Did you know that the only armory in the South not destroyed was at Tallassee, Alabama? Here is what happened. Toward the end of the war, the Richmond carbine factory moved from Richmond to an old Tallassee cotton mill which [...]
General Nathan Bedford Forrest has made the news again! He seems to be a lightning rod, 151 years after the end of the "Civil War". Known as a self-educated and innovative cavalry leader during the war, he has become extremely [...]