Snowbrush

Today is Sunday. On Wednesday, Peggy left on her fourth vacation of the year. I kid her about only leaving home when the house needs cleanin...

Emma Kline   Hundreds of women served at Vicksburg in one way or another. A Confederate woman named Emma Kline was arrested for smuggling , ...

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...