Gen. mcculloch had intended to march out and attack the union on the evening of Aug. ninth, but approaching rain made him call off the march because the rain could mess up the powder for their guns. little did he or his fellow Army general price know that union general lyon would surprise the rebels […]
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LAST SHOT OF THE CIVIL WAR WAS A BLANK
The last shot fired in the Civil War was at sea in the Bering Strait. The CSS Shenandoah, a Confederate Raider vessel, arriving late in the war (1864) fired a blank cannon shot at a […]
Continue ReadingRESEARCH FOR THE NOVEL
In researching for my novel, Asunder, A Novel of the Civil War, I had a lot to learn. I dug through volumes of googled information as well as from books and pamphlets and actual Civil War era documents. I toured the battlefields multiple times. On one trek I walked the entire distance through chest high […]
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This photo is from the Lookout Mountain Battlefield park. This mountain was a lightly held stronghold of the Confederacy, looking out at Chattanooga, Tennessee, hundreds of feet below. The battle fought here was literally fought “above the clouds.” It probably looked like this on the day Union troops scaled the imposing height. Confederates, few in […]
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