Words from a father, escaped from slavery, to his children still in bondage
“My Children, I take my pen in hand to rite you A few lines to let you know that I have not forgot you and that I want to see you as bad as ever,” wrote escaped slave Spotswood Rice to his daughters, still in bondage, in September of 1864. “Your Miss Kaitty said that I […]
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Read more...Jonesin’ for a Civil War battlefield fix
I have a confession: It’s been almost two months since I’ve been on a Civil War battlefield, and I am getting antsy. My travels this summer have taken me far and wide, so I’ve seen a lot of cool stuff: the rocky coast of Acadia National Park awash in the pounding surf of the Atlantic; […]
Read more...My Top Ten List, or Building Your Civil War Library
“Everyman his own historian,[1]” is a quote bandied about in many classrooms, but it is rarely more true than when it is describing Civil War folk. I use the word folk because I have no wish to begin a Sumter-like flame war among readers. There has been enough discussion in the world at large about […]
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