Our Great American Solar Eclipse has come and gone with hundreds of thousands of people traveling great distances to be a part of it. Here in Custer County, America, the impact was not as great as in other areas. But still,…
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REMEMBERING THE PAST
General Jefferson C. Davis, staff and the Fourteenth Corps passing on Pennsylvania Avenue near the Treasury. This Corps was the last unit to pass by the viewing stand. W. D. Hall, my husband’s great grandfather, is somewhere in this…
Posted in Chat Tagged with: Abraham Lincoln, Civil War, Fourteenth Corps, George Santayana, Jefferson C. Davis, Review of Troops, War between the States, War of the Rebellion, Washington DC
THE GREAT LOCOMOTIVE CHASE
The General, famed for the daring theft of it during the Civil War, resides now in the Southern Museum of Civil War and Locomotive History, Kennesaw, Georgia. It has been one hundred fifty one years and a handful of…
Posted in Chat Tagged with: Andrews Raid, Charles O'Neill, Civil War, Georgia, James J. Andrews, locomotive, Medal of Honor, memoir, The General, trains, Walt Disney, William Allan Fuller
WHAT AM I DOING HERE?
B Years ago as my step father was sliding into the bizarre horror of Alzeheimer’s, he would sit on the blue couch in the living room and say, over and over again, “What am I doing here?” That puzzled…
Posted in Chat Tagged with: Alabama, Alzeheimer's, Civil War, Georgia, GONE WITH THE WIND, librarian, photographer, Rhett, Scarlet