Requiem for a Culture, Part 3: The Battle of Staunton River Bridge On June 23rd General Lee sent word to Captain Benjamin Farinholt, who commanded a battalion of reserves charged with defending the bridge, warning him that the Federals were about to come down hard on him, and ordering him to prevent the bridge…
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Know Your Southern History: Major General Patrick Cleburne, CSA
Cleburne Part I: The Making of an Irish-Southern Nationalist The following is a four-part series on the life of Major General Patrick Cleburne, C.S.A. It derives heavily from two sources, “Cleburne and His Command,” by Captain Irving A. Buck, C.S.A., (1908), and “Stonewall of the West: Patrick Cleburne & the Civil War,” by Professor Craig…
The Noble Carolinians, A Walk to Remember
The Noble Carolinians, A Walk to Remember “The Empire is a slow and methodical killer, especially for our people. It has slowly bled us since 1861. If it does not destroy our bodies, on foreign battlefields for vain glory and gold, as in the case of my father, it will most certainly destroy our…