Walnut Grove PlantationAs many of you know, I took a quick trip to South Carolina to research my new book on the Revolutionary War.One of the interesting places I visited was Walnut Grove Plantation in Roebuck, S.C., home of Catherine “Kate” Barry, a...
Reproductions of cabins used by soldiers at Valley Forge.It seems like I have been running non-stop since leaving town the last week of June to attend a book signing in Elizabeth City, N.C. From there I spent a few days on the Outer Banks, and then it was back to...
Had to share this beautiful poem that was printed on June 30, 1863 in the Poughkeepsie Eagle in New York. Author unknown. Send Them Home Tenderly Send them home tenderly,The sleepers at rest,With hands meekly foldedOn each silent breast;Let them come back to...
Found this interesting and heartbreaking account of war in the Gettysburg Compiler, January 12, 1864:Singular Fidelity of a Dog on the BattleFieldOn Monday last, as Hon. John Covode, in company with a number of officers, was passing over the battlefield beyond...
