Sarah Wadley was a young woman in Monroe, Louisiana. Her father was an official with the Vicksburg, Shreveport, and Texas Railroad, and her position in Monroe society, and its distance from the battlefields, insulated her from the war for a more »
It occurred to me, when I wrote my recent post about Webster, a runaway slave, that with digitized texts, it has now become possible to develop a biographical sketch of an individual slave simply by performing a keyword search of more »
Lt. Col. Arthur J.L. Fremantle of Her Majesty’s Coldstream Guards was the Forrest Gump of the Civil War. He was everywhere. In the space of just three and a half months, he traveled from Brownsville, Texas through nearly every seceded more »
The early spring of 1863 was a difficult one for Kate Stone and her family. Yankees had infested the area near Milliken’s Bend for months, but their numbers were growing in anticipation of yet another attempt to take Vicksburg. As more »
I haven’t been blogging that long, but already Kate Stone’s name has come up several times. Who was she? She was 22 years old at the time of the battle of Milliken’s Bend. She lived with her mother and siblings more »