Friday, November 20, 2020

A Short History of the Cigar

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  The native people of the American continent were the first to grow and smoke tobacco. Tobacco was first used by the Maya of Central Americ...
Wednesday, October 21, 2020

Richmond Hospitals 1861-1865

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Richmond became a major hospital center during the Civil War.   The Moore Hospital is seen below.  Running a hospital presented many challen...
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Wednesday, October 14, 2020

Richmond Offices of the Confederate Government 1861-1865

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The Custom House, the first Federal building ever built in Richmond is seen below.   This building provided offices for Confederate Presiden...
Sunday, October 11, 2020

The Tredegar Iron Works, Richmond (1861-1865)

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  Once Virginia seceded, the Confederate government moved the capital from Montgomery, Alabama to Richmond, Virginia.  Richmond was the Sout...
Saturday, September 26, 2020

Woodrow Wilson’s “Beast”

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  At the Woodrow Wilson Museum, Staunton, Virginia Woodrow Wilson returned from the Paris Peace Conference of 1919 to be greeted by cheering...
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Saturday, September 19, 2020

John Singleton Mosby After the War

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  As a child, John Singleton Mosby was small, sickly and was often the target of bullying. He would respond by fighting back. During the co...
Sunday, September 06, 2020

The Strange Case of the Republic of Fredonia (Fredonia, Texas)

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  If you have ever heard of the nation of “Fredonia”, you probably associate it with a mythical European state portrayed in the Marx Brother...
Friday, September 04, 2020

John Singleton Mosby and the Sabre

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                                                                                                                   John S. Mosby Recollectio...
Friday, August 21, 2020

George Custer Accidentally Shoots His Horse

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In 1874, George Armstrong Custer published My Life on the Plains , an account of his career as an Indian fighter to that time....
Friday, August 07, 2020

Custer and the Inadequate Seventh Cavalry

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Sioux representation of the Battle of the Little Bighorn In his book, A Terrible Glory: Custer and the Little Bighorn - the Last...
Thursday, August 06, 2020

Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and the Battle of the Little Bighorn

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Captain Thomas Weir In his book, A Terrible Glory:Custer and the Little Bighorn - the Last Great Battle of the American West , ...
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Tuesday, August 04, 2020

A Timeline of the Battle of the Little Bighorn

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Custer's Last Battle      William A. Graham published TheStory of the Little Big Horn: Custer's Last Fight , the first a...
Sunday, August 02, 2020

A Survivor of the Battle of the Little Bighorn

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Comanche When General Alfred Terry and his column arrived at the Little Bighorn on June 27, 1876, George Armstrong Custer and o...
Friday, July 31, 2020

The First Custer Movie (1912)

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Custer's Last Fight (1925 Version) In 1912, Thomas Ince produced Custer’s Last Fight , the first film depiction of the even...
Sunday, July 26, 2020

Custer's Last Moments

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 The Last Stand     Six months after the battle of the Little Bighorn (June 25, 1876), Frederick Whittaker’s  A Complete Life...