Nathan Bedford Forrest, simply put, is a controversial figure. The son of a blacksmith, he came from an untamed area...
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No town was more fought over during the Civil War than Winchester, Virginia. It changed hands so many times that...
Texan John Bell Hood was not one to back down, on or off the battlefield. At the end of the...
Reading about the Civil War would certainly be a lot less interesting without the firsthand accounts of our Confederate friend,...
Time for another tale of Private Sam Watkins of the First Tennessee Infantry. It was 1863. Sam was in Chattanooga,...
Last month we posted a spine-tingling and amazing story about the Ghosts of Gettysburg that just might make believers out...
Through the harsh winter of 1865, General Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia suffered a steady stream of desertions. At its...
Private Sam Watkins’ Company H of the 1st Tennessee was camped on the Duck River, at a moment when there...
There is a side of the Civil War that many don’t know about, or just ignore. It was not so...
Some may wonder why the South remembers the Civil War as it does. After all, the losses were horrific to...
