Though President Lincoln’s beautiful words were given on a cool November day, they are worth a rerun on this day. In a sense, we’re still…
The Blue and the Gray have emerged from winter quarters. As the roads dry up and allow for the movement of artillery, the fighting heats…
In Oakwood Cemetery, Richmond, Virginia, most of the Confederate dead, known and unknown, moulder in graves marked only by numbered blocks of granite. That doesn’t…
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…
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…