While visiting Glendale National Cemetery at Malvern Hill, I was surprised to see several markers with “CAL.” as the state of the soldiers. “These poor…
Reading the Man: A Portrait of Robert E. Lee Through His Private Letters, by Elizabeth Brown Pryor. Pryor searched Lee’s letters to find (to quote…
Rufus Ingalls’ Dalmatian was a favorite and favored companion of the general, and accompanied him whether he traveled by saddle horse or by buggy. Rufus…
And you trees down in your roots… And you trees down in your roots to bequeath to all future trees, My dead absorb or South…
Those beautifully vivid 19th century photos–the imagery so sharp you feel as if you can touch the fabric, the buttons, the hair–required people to remain…
Nineteenth-century women tended toward flowery scents, but a man could wear “violet water” without being considered effeminate. Until the twentieth century, people tried to improve…