Preserving Revolutionary & Civil War History
Preserving Revolutionary & Civil War History
David Owen Dodd (November 10, 1846 – January 8, 1864), also known as David O. Dodd, was an Arkansas youth executed for spying in Lincoln’s War of Northern Aggression. In December 1863 Dodd carried some letters to business associates of…
Why They Raped, Pillaged, and Plundered: General Sherman’s Professed Hatred of Self Government November and December of this year mark the 150th anniversary of General William Tecumseh Sherman’s famous “march to the sea” at the end of the War to…
“You have given a banner to those who fear You, that it may be displayed because of the truth.” Psalm 60:4 Beneath the Southern Cross By Mike Scruggs The Confederate Battle Flag, sometimes called the Southern Cross, is held in…
Which Have Impelled Them to Unite Their Fortunes With Those of the Confederate States of America When circumstances beyond their control compel one people to sever the ties which have long existed between them and another state or confederacy and…
“[R]ace prejudice seems stronger in those states that have abolished slavery than in those where it still exists, and nowhere is it more intolerant than in those states where slavery was never known.” –Alexis De Tocqueville, “Democracy in America” In…
‘Belle of the Battlefield’ Lucinda Dogan and six of her children lived in a two-room home in Manassas, where, on July 21, 1861, the First Battle of Manassas raged just down the road. Lucinda loaded a wagon…
On August 20, 1864, a chosen group of 600 Confederate officers left Fort Delaware as prisoners of war, bound for the Union Army base at Hilton Head, S.C. Their purpose–to be placed in a stockade in front of the Union…
(October 15, 1836 – March 29, 1910) was a Confederate general during the American Civil War, and later an officer in the Spanish American War and railroad construction engineer. A favorite of J.E.B. Stuart, he was noted for his daring…
A low-level conflict had already been raging in the Missouri-Kansas borderlands in the years preceding the outbreak of the Civil War. Fueling this conflict was a dispute over whether Kansas should be a slave-holding state or not. By the…
Berry Benson was born on February 9th, 1843 in Hamburg, South Carolina, just across the Savannah River from Augusta, Georgia. In 1860 Berry Benson enlisted with his brother in a local militia unit aged 17 and 15 respectively. The next…