Today we honor the brave men and women who have given their lives in all the wars since our nation was founded, and I can't help but think of the horrors of war, especially the War Between the States when so many [...]
Jefferson Davis lies in Hollywood Cemetery in Richmond with his family. The place is very peaceful and overlooks the James river. Some have compared the James with the Jordan in Israel. Mothers have taken their children to this sacred place quoting [...]
On August 29, 2005, Beauvoir, the retirement home of Jefferson and Varina Davis, on the Miss. Gulf Coast at Biloxi, was nearly destroyed, when it took the full brunt of wind and water damage from Hurricane Katrina.Did you know that [...]
So much happened that last week in May, 1862. McClellan took his army eight miles from Richmond and divided it on both sides of the Chickahominy river. General Jackson joined Richard Ewell in the Luray Valley of western Virginia. He [...]
As Secretary of War under Franklin Pierce, Jefferson Davis was considered perhaps the best who ever served at that position. He introduced a humanities program at the U.S. Military Academy, establishing for the first time an elites corps of officers [...]
Alabama seceded from the Union on January 11, 1861, the fourth state to do so. She then played host to the first Confederate capital in Montgomery, where representatives from the Confederate states elected Jefferson Davis their President, and drafted a [...]
I blogged about Kate Cumming, Civil War nurse, on 11/12/10. She wrote a diary after the war about her experiences. Although she was adamant that the South should win and was on the "side of justice and right", her faith [...]
In my bookcase is a three volume biography of Jefferson Davis by Hudson Strode. The first in the series is Jefferson Davis, American Patriot, 1808-1861. It tells of the years before what Strode calls "the Great Conflict". The second book is Confederate [...]
People have debated this question for years. For one thing the South and the North were essentially two different nations with different cultures. Some say the foundation for the war was laid in 1787 when the U.S. Constitution was written. Historian [...]
When Stonewall Jackson's 1862 campaign in the "Valley" came to a close, it was in the estimation of one observer "a chapter in history which is without parallel. That spring, his men had marched nearly 700 miles, won five battles and [...]