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The South before the war: an island in time

The South before the war: an island in time The first thing a modern time-traveler would notice, on arrival in the antebellum South, would most likely be the silence. There might be movement among dry leaves, or the snort of a horse. Bird songs, surely, and,...

Waiting for the end in Sherman’s path

Waiting for the end in Sherman’s path “The cloud of war is darkening and threatens to burst over our heads. Wilmington has fallen, Charleston and Columbia. Sherman is still making his onward march. Our own town is threatened and all is dismay and...

Merit selection, it wasn’t

Merit selection, it wasn’t If you want to know how one of the nation’s premiere military installations got its name, don’t expect to find the answer in the Civil War service record of Braxton Bragg, who has been called “the North’s...

U.S. History, Meet the Present

U.S. History, Meet the Present There’s no shortage of innocent assumptions, sneering one-liners, pseudohistory, off-topic diversions and mindless loops regarding the causes and conduct of the Civil War. If you’ve had enough of that cheap beer, then buy,...

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