Confederate Brigadier General Joseph E. Johnston was the son of Revolutionary War army colonel, Peter Johnston, and his mother was a niece of Patrick Henry. Johnston had a long and illustrious career in the service of the US army before Lincoln’s illegal war on the South. As a matter of fact he was a Brigadier…
God knows the misinformation, misunderstanding, and confusion labeled “history” is legion. It’s sickening, and sad, PARTICULARLY among “our own”. How can I say this? I’ll just be blunt… GENERAL FORREST DID NOT ORGANIZE AND FOUND THE KUKLUX!!! But IF he had it would have been the right thing to do! The founders of the original…
Probably the most famous Asian Confederate soldiers were the two sons of famed P.T. Barnum Circus world-renowned Siamese Twins, Chang and Eng Bunker. (The Thai twins took the name “Bunker” to Americanize themselves.) Chang & Eng, were born joined at the chest from birth and were devoted Confederates. The twins were tobacco growers and living…
Philip Dale Roddey (April 2, 1826 – July 20, 1897) A brigadier general in the army of the Confederate States of America during the American Civil War. Roddey was born in Moulton, Lawrence County, Alabama, to Philip and Sarah Roddey. His father, a saddler, had moved his family to Alabama from eastern Tennessee. Philip D.…
John Austin Wharton (July 23, 1828 – April 6, 1865) A lawyer, plantation owner, and Confederate general during the American Civil War. He is considered one of the Confederacy’s best tactical cavalry commanders. Wharton was born near Nashville, Tennessee, as the only child of Sarah Groce Wharton and William H. Wharton, later a leading politician…
Lafayette McLaws ( January 15, 1821 – July 24, 1897) United States Army officer and a Confederate general in the War for Southern Independence. He served at Antietam and Fredericksburg, where Robert E. Lee praised his defense of Marye’s Heights, and at Gettysburg, where his division made successful assaults through the Peach Orchard and Wheatfield,…
H. T. KEIRSEY Pictured is Private Hiram Taylor Kersey of Cannon County, Tennessee who was only thirteen years old in May of 1861 when he enlisted in Company A of Colonel John Savage’s 16th Tennessee Volunteer Infantry Regiment. A mere boy, Kersey was the youngest son of the widow Margaret (Peggy) Kersey. His older brother…
Few ties are as strong as the military bands of brotherhood. The Gist of the Matter Two soldiers, close friends for years, had the unlikely distinction of meeting (sort of) for the last time at Gettysburg. One fought for the Union, one for the Confederacy. One died in battle. The other nearly became President of…
Horace Porter, Brevet Brigadier General, U.S.A. A little before noon on the 7th of April, 1865, General Grant, with his staff, rode into the little village of Farmville, on the south side of the Appomattox River, a town that will be memorable in history as the place where he opened the correspondence with Lee which…
Little Rock, Ark., 19th Dec., ’49. My dear, dear wife: I can hardly express to you the happiness I feel at being again on dry land and able to address you. And yet it will appear strange that I can be happy when away from my Elisa, my wife. Well, my dear wife, I am…
