He was a slave, soldier, cowboy, and perhaps the greatest big game hunter in United States history. And he influenced the popularity and nickname of our most beloved President. The little known story of Holt Collier is one that’s been too long forgotten.
In response to federal overreach, most people tend to focus on three types of actions to stop them: elections, conventions, and lawsuits. While they all have their place in an overall strategy to defend the Constitution, none of them should be the first step forward. That is if you follow the advice of the “Father of the Constitution.”
George Washington’s Family Members who served the Confederate States of America during the War Between The States George Washington was a Southerner born in Virginia (February 22, 1732 – December 14, 1799) He was a Hero and a Great American Colonist from the South. He was a military general, statesman, and founding father who served…
Along the banks of Stones River, just outside Murfreesboro, Tennessee occurred an often-overlooked battle during the New Year’s holiday of 1862-1863. Fought during miserable weather that saw bitterly cold rain and sleet, the three-day engagement would involve more than 80,000 soldiers and inflict staggering casualties, with over 23,500 men killed, wounded, or missing. The fighting was some of the most brutal and desperate of the war. Those who fought and died there witnessed incredible bravery alongside great cruelty, while great leadership mingled with the criminally inept.
Forts played important roles in American history from the moment the Spanish, French, and English settlers landed in North America. One of the first things that these settlers did was to build a palisade fort. Forts existed in the American colonies throughout the 17th and 18th centuries to defend seaports from foreign navies and to defend the frontier from Native American attacks. They often played critical roles in the frontier warfare of the French and Indian War between 1754 and 1763. When fighting broke out in 1775 between the British empire and the American colonists, many of these forts immediately became important military targets.
Colonel John Singleton Mosby, son of Alfred D. Mosby. of Amherst county, was born December 6, 1833, at Edgemont, Powhatan county, the residence of his maternal grandfather, Rev. McLaurin. At the age of sixteen years, he entered the University of Virginia, where his course of study was terminated by an unfortunate difficulty with a fellow…
Following the Battle of Fredericksburg on December 13, 1862, General Stonewall Jackson established his winter headquarters at Moss Neck Manor, a stately plantation home located twelve miles east of the city.
Forty-one-year-old Robert Selden Garnett was a newly minted brigadier general in the Confederate army when he was sent to western Virginia in June 1861 to command the Department of Northwestern Virginia.
Richard Rowland Kirkland was just 17 years old when he enlisted as a private in the Camden Volunteers under the command of his friend and neighbor, Captain John D. Kennedy on April 9, 1861. Later the Camden Volunteers became Company E, 2nd Regiment South Carolina Volunteer Infantry under the command of Colonel Joseph B. Kershaw, a prominent attorney, and neighbor
Enlisting in the Palo Alto Confederates in 1861 from his home in Palo Alto, Mississippi, at the age of fifteen, Andrew Martin Chandler was mustered into Company “F” of Blythe’s Mississippi Infantry, Forty-Fourth Mississippi Infantry. He participated in several campaigns with his childhood playmate, friend, and former slave, seventeen-year-old Silas Chandler. Andrew was captured at…
