Snowbrush

Ironclads Running the Batteries at Vicksburg Abraham Lincoln called Vicksburg “the key to the war,” and his Confederate counterpart, Jeffers...

  As I start this post, eight men are tearing the roof from my house with square-pointed shovels. The noise from yesterday’s shingle deliver...

Retreat from Bull Run (aka First Manassas) On an average day, 425 men died during America ’ s four-year-long Civil War. Although the countr...

Peggy (age 11) 1962 When we met at Mississippi College in 1971, Peggy had just turned twenty and was shy, honorable, intelligent, soft-spoke...

Walt and Lowell, 1994 On September 14 at 11:00 a.m., Peggy held the hand of her friend, Walt, as he died of an overdose of drugs obtained th...