Help the Gordonsville Grays erect a new 14' monument to General Lee on private property in Virginia.

JACKSON IS WITH YOU! - DON TROIANI. August 9, 1862. It was the moment of crisis at the battle of Cedar Mountain. Hand to hand fighting sent the left wing of Stonewall Jackson's army reeling back in confusion. Jackson realized he needed to rally his men. He raised his sword,

HBD to Winfield Scott Featherston "Old Swet" (August 8, 1820 – May 28, 1891.). Early life and career. Winfield S. Featherston was born near Murfreesboro, Tennessee, the youngest of seven children of Charles and Lucy Featherston, who had recently emigrated from Virginia.

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Evander McIvor Law . was born in Darlington, South Carolina, on August 7, 1836. In 1856, he graduated from the South Carolina Military Academy, and was an instructor during his senior year. Helping establish the Military High School in Tuskegee, Alabama, he enlisted in the 4th

War on civilians of the valley . “HEADQUARTERS IN THE FIELD, MONOCACY RIDGE, MD. August 5, 1864. Maj. Gen. D. Hunter, Commanding Department of West Virginia: In pushing up the Shenandoah Valley, as it is expected you will have to go first or last, it is desirable that nothing

HBD to Brigadier General Carnot Posey (August 5, 1818 – November 13, 1863) . Early life and family. Posey was born near Woodville, Mississippi, the fourth of eight children of planter John Brooke Posey and Elizabeth Screven Posey. He attended the common schools and then graduated

RT @2ndMississippi: The Sound of Southern Defiance: Unraveling the Mystery of the Rebel Yell. "At last it grew too dark to fight. Then away….

August 4, 1863, “The amount of burning, stealing and plundering done by our army makes me ashamed of it. I would rather quit the service if I could, because I fear that we are drifting to the worst sort of vandalism. “You and I and every commander must go through the war,

HBD to William Yarnel Slack (August 1, 1816 – March 21, 1862.) . William Y. Slack was born in rural Mason County, Kentucky, in the summer of 1816. Three years later, his father John Slack moved the family to Boone County, Missouri, and settled near Columbia. John Slack, a potter

HBD to Brigadier General Maxcy Gregg (August 1, 1814 – December 15, 1862) . Gregg was born in Columbia, South Carolina, the great-grandson of Esek Hopkins, commodore of the Continental Navy, and grandson of Jonathan Maxcy first president of South Carolina College (now called the

July 31, 1866, Lee’s interview: LEE’S INTERVIEW ON SLAVERY WITH HERBERT C. SANDERS, LONDON REPORTER…. "On the subject of slavery, he [Lee] assured me that he had always been in favour of the emancipation of the negroes, and that in Virginia the feeling had been strongly

came up.". U.S. General Burnside’s operational plan began to fall apart when, the day before the attack, General Meade forbade the use of the “Colored Division” as the spearhead. U.S. General Meade did not think Blacks were good enough soldiers, and he feared political

July 30, 1864, “the Crater was equal to a doom of death. It has been positively asserted that [union] white men bayoneted blacks who fell back into the crater. This was in order to preserve the whites from [supposed] Confederate vengeance.” … “The action was considered a

July 29, 1862 Confederate spy Belle Boyd is captured. Marie Isabella “Belle” Boyd is arrested by Union troops and detained at the Old Capitol Prison in Washington, D.C. It was the first of three arrests for this skilled spy who provided crucial information to the Confederates

HBD to James Henry Lane (July 28, 1833 – September 21, 1907). He is considered to be the father of Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University and is the namesake of the University's oldest building, Lane Hall. Lane was born in Mathews Court House, Virginia. He

HBD to William Duncan Smith (July 28, 1825 – October 4, 1862) . Early life and career.Smith was born in Augusta, Georgia, in 1825. He entered the United States Military Academy in West Point in July 1842, and graduated four years later, standing 35th out of 59 cadets. He was

HBD to Brigadier General John Marshall Jones (July 26, 1820 – May 5, 1864.). Early life. Jones was born in Charlottesville, Virginia. At West Point, he was nicknamed "Rum" Jones for his fondness for alcohol. He graduated in 1841, ranking 39th in a class of 52. Nineteen of his

KINGS OF KERNSTOWN.Generals Early, Gordon, Breckinridge & Ramseur.Pritchard Farm - Kernstown, Virginia - July 24, 1864 . They were four of a kind. Hard-bitten and battle tested Confederate generals. Jubal A. Early, John B. Gordon, John C. Breckinridge and Stephen D. Ramseur were

In Memory of : "The Giant In Gray".A proud stepson of the South . Born on July 23, 1835 .Kingdom of Prussia,.German Empire. Death on May 10 , 1895.Berlin, Province of Brandenburg,.Kingdom of Prussia, German Empire. Johann August Heinrich Heros von Borcke is known as the

Banks in his attempt to capture Shreveport, Louisiana, Walker reversed course and headed back south to join Taylor's pursuit of Banks. He arrived in Alexandria on May 23, 1864, the same day that Banks's retreating Army was being picked up by Federal troop transports at