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Here is another tale of Private Sam Watkins, Company H, 1st Tennessee:“It was Christmas. John Barleycorn was general-in-chief. Our generals, and colonels, and captains, had kissed John a little too often…. We marched plumb into the Yankee lines, with their flags flying.”“I called Lieutenant-Colonel Frierson’s attention to the Yankees, and he remarked, “Well, I don’t […]

Nathan Bedford Forrest, simply put, is a controversial figure. The son of a blacksmith, he came from an untamed area of Tennessee. Forrest had practically no schooling, but went on to become one of the highest-ranking generals of the Civil War.  Like him or not, he was a smart man, a master tactician.  And he

David Johnston was 15 when Lincoln was elected.  By April of the next year he was a Confederate Private in a Virginia regiment, having just turned 16 and old enough to go off to war. That is his image above. Private Johnston fought in the earliest battles, and all the way to Appomattox.  After the

Many have heard of the U.S. Army’s use of camels in the old west, well before the Civil War.  In the 1850’s, as the first American settlers started moving west, they realized their horses and mules weren’t cut out for the long, dry journeys between water sources. Many settlers wanted to find a different animal.

Southern Irishmen from all over fought for the Confederacy, but Louisiana sent the most into the fray.  New Orleans was home to more Irishmen than any other city in the South. They were in many Confederate Regiments, but the 6th Louisiana had the most. Above is a the flag of that regiment. Half the Irish

It was 1907, and the US Senate was debating what was to be the official name for the Civil War. Former Confederate and Union soldiers were present, and the record shows they were getting along just fine.   Here is part of what Senator Hernando Money of Mississippi said, from the Senate Record: There was ex-Senator

One of Robert E. Lee’s most aggressive and successful generals, and probably the most courageous and determined was General John Gordon. He fought bravely and ferociously for the Confederacy the entire war, several times while wounded.At the Battle of Antietam Gordon’s took a minnie ball through his calf.  A second ball hit him soon after

Confederate Private Watkins tells a story about capturing a mule.“He was not a fast mule, and I soon found out that he thought he knew as much as I did. He was wise in his own conceit…. If I wanted him to go on one side of the road he was sure to be possessed

The Confederacy had many outstanding officers, who are are due all honor and respect. But by far, the makeup of the rank and file of the army was mostly privates. Those men marched and fought. Some lived, some died, and today their descendants wish to gratefully remember them.  As Sam Watkins of the 1st Tennessee

The recent news carried an article about how someone was very offended by a flag.  To hear the fellow’s words, you would think his life had just about been destroyed because he saw it. The flag in question had been followed by men whose constant companions were hunger and disease, who for years were vastly