behind AotW

This from the Terrell, Texas Register by way of the of Fairfield Recorder of 28 August 1896. I've not found who "old Hannah" was, but Joe Savage was a Sharpsburg…

Here are some excellent photographs of Henry Roger Jones very kindly sent me by his great-great-granddaughter Deborah Burks. Henry was a 23 year old law student in Illinois in early…

Rufus King Felder and his cousin Miers Martindale Felder enlisted together in July 1861 near their homes in Washington County, TX, and joined the Dixie Blues, later Company E of…

Here's the very image of pre-war South Carolina aristocracy: a young Richard Caspar Simpson, then about 20 years old, posing with his shotgun and hunting dog. He was oldest son…

I've spent hours today trying to untangle the military, family, and burial records that have been attached to William Fitzgerald Dean, late Corporal, 13th Alabama Infantry. I think I have…