A “family history” like no other — the musings of blogger David Ivey My Civil War commemoration began four years ago, on April 12, 2011. I watched from The Battery at Charleston Harbor as a giant spotlight sent a beam into the night sky above Fort...
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 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 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,...
High hopes and hard war A Texas soldier stationed in Arkansas, one of eight Reb brothers born and reared on the same Cape Fear River plantation, was reservedly optimistic as the Civil War passed its first anniversary.”If I am still blessed with good...
