As the American Civil War began to run down the southern Virginia town of Martinsville in Henry County saw one of the last actions of that war. A Confederate cavalry regiment under the command of James T. Wheeler met the brigade of Union Brevet Brigadier General William J. Palmer on April 8, 1865. The result was a victory for the United States forces. This book tells the story of that fight for Martinsville and the life of Palmer, who was born a Quaker in Delaware and ended his life as a millionaire businessman in Colorado.
As the American Civil War began to run down the southern Virginia town of Martinsville in Henry County saw one of the last actions of that war. A Conf...
Historian Thomas D. "Tom" Perry tells the story of Civil War General James Ewell Brown "Jeb" Stuart and his first sweetheart Elizabeth Perkins "Bettie" Hairston in this book on the history of Patrick and Henry Counties in Virginia in the antebellum period and through the War Between The States. Using Stuart's letters to Hairston, Perry tells the story of their romance and their lives afterwards. The story comes forward to the piano she played and he sang with her in the days before a war torn this nation apart.
Historian Thomas D. "Tom" Perry tells the story of Civil War General James Ewell Brown "Jeb" Stuart and his first sweetheart Elizabeth Perkins "Bettie...
On February 11, 1865, Union Cavalry under the command of Judson "Kill Cavalry" Kilpatrick met Confederate forces under Joseph "Fighting Joe" Wheeler in the town of Aiken, South Carolina. In one of the last victories for the South during the War Between The States, Wheeler routed Kilpatrick, but was unable to stop William T. Sherman's "March Through The Carolinas," which ended with Southern surrender at the Bennett Place in North Carolina. R. Wayne Jones tells the story of this battle, which protected Augusta, Georgia, from Sherman's marauders and kept hope alive for the Confederate States of...
On February 11, 1865, Union Cavalry under the command of Judson "Kill Cavalry" Kilpatrick met Confederate forces under Joseph "Fighting Joe" Wheeler i...
