Preserving Revolutionary & Civil War History
Preserving Revolutionary & Civil War History
Sally Louisa Tompkins (November 9, 1833 – July 26, 1916) THE ANGEL OF THE CONFEDERACY Only woman commissioned as an officer in the CSA Captain Sally Louisa TompkinsWas a humanitarian, nurse, and philanthropist. She is best-remembered for privately sponsoring a hospital in Richmond, Virginia to treat soldiers wounded in the War. Under her supervision, her…
We have all been taught that Abraham Lincoln was a gentleman, “Honest Abe,” a man who advocated “malice toward none and charity for all.” We have been taught that Lincoln would have opposed the policy pursued by Radical Republicans like Thaddeus Stevens, which pushed for vengeful, retributive policies against the South. We have been taught in books,…
John Allan Wyeth, born on May 26, 1845, in Guntersville, Alabama. Served with the 4th Alabama Cavalry was an American Confederate veteran and surgeon till he was captured. He was a Hero and Great American from the South during the War of Northern Aggression. Doctor John A. Wyeth joined the Confederate States Army on December…
The slave trade begins in America, with warring African tribes capturing other tribal people and selling them to slave traders in the African harbors. None of these slave traders were American ships. People of color selling other people of color who eventually ended up in the American colonies. White-skinned people from Ireland and Oriental people…
Confederate Brigadier General Joseph E. Johnston was the son of Revolutionary War army colonel, Peter Johnston, and his mother was a niece of Patrick Henry. Johnston had a long and illustrious career in the service of the US army before Lincoln’s illegal war on the South. As a matter of fact he was a Brigadier…
Probably the most famous Asian Confederate soldiers were the two sons of famed P.T. Barnum Circus world-renowned Siamese Twins, Chang and Eng Bunker. (The Thai twins took the name “Bunker” to Americanize themselves.) Chang & Eng, were born joined at the chest from birth and were devoted Confederates. The twins were tobacco growers and living…
Philip Dale Roddey (April 2, 1826 – July 20, 1897) A brigadier general in the army of the Confederate States of America during the American Civil War. Roddey was born in Moulton, Lawrence County, Alabama, to Philip and Sarah Roddey. His father, a saddler, had moved his family to Alabama from eastern Tennessee. Philip D.…
John Austin Wharton (July 23, 1828 – April 6, 1865) A lawyer, plantation owner, and Confederate general during the American Civil War. He is considered one of the Confederacy’s best tactical cavalry commanders. Wharton was born near Nashville, Tennessee, as the only child of Sarah Groce Wharton and William H. Wharton, later a leading politician…
Lafayette McLaws ( January 15, 1821 – July 24, 1897) United States Army officer and a Confederate general in the War for Southern Independence. He served at Antietam and Fredericksburg, where Robert E. Lee praised his defense of Marye’s Heights, and at Gettysburg, where his division made successful assaults through the Peach Orchard and Wheatfield,…