This past weekend, I had the honor and privilege of being a speaker at the 4th Annual Sue Knost Memorial Conference, hosted by the Capital District Civil War Round Table (Albany, NY). Before this weekend, I had not heard of more »
(continued from previous post) In early November 1863, Benjamin Sims traveled to Vicksburg to try to plead his case to Union authorities in person, but was turned away. He was told that his brother, M.W. Sims, was already steaming north more »
October was a trying time for Benjamin Sims. He had learned that his brother, M. W. (Milton Walker) Sims, a staff officer of Confederate general Paul Octave Hebert, had been captured by Union forces near Natchez in July. M.W. Sims more »
In late August 1863, Maj. Gen. James B. McPherson ordered Brig. Gen. John D. Stevenson to take a bit more than a division on a cross-country expedition into Louisiana. They disembarked from their transports at Goodrich’s Landing on the Mississippi River, more »