Who freed the slaves?
It often bothers me when I hear people say, “Lincoln set the slaves free.” He did not. What he did do was to issue a proclamation that – by declaration – freed those persons held in bondage in certain specific more »
Category Archives: Civil War
General Richard Taylor, C.S.A.
Major General Richard Taylor was a subordinate of Lt. Gen. Edmund Kirby Smith in the Trans-Mississippi Department of the Confederacy in the spring of 1863, and he would be tasked with trying to break through to relieve Vicksburg from the more »
Emancipation – It Changed Everything (or Did It?)
150 years ago, the entire reason for the Civil War changed. Although the majority of men in the Northern ranks enlisted to restore the Union, on Jan. 1, 1863, President Lincoln’s final Emancipation Proclamation declared that all persons held in more »
Davis Bend
The story of Davis Bend is not what you’d expect. Confederate President Jefferson Davis made his home at Brierfield. His older brother, Joseph, had his home nearby at Hurricane. Both of these estates were located on a thumb-like pennisula of more »
Who Were the USCT Officers?
In the spring of 1863, Adjutant General of the United States, Lorenzo Thomas, traveled to the Mississippi Valley as an ambassador of the government. “I can act precisely as if the President of the United States were himself present,” he more »