A review of Preachers with Power: Four Stalwarts of the South (Banner of Truth, 1992)…
Karen StokesMay 4, 2021
In June 1863, Fitzgerald Ross, a British military man who was collecting information about the…
Karen StokesMarch 2, 2021
The diary of Emma LeConte is one of the best known documents chronicling the sack…
Karen StokesFebruary 17, 2021
In Washington, D.C., while serving as Secretary of War in the 1850s, Jefferson Davis met…
Karen StokesNovember 5, 2020
Daniel Baker (1791-1857) is all but forgotten today, but in the first half of the…
Karen StokesMarch 11, 2020
What does the South have to offer that is valuable to humanity, to civilization? In…
Karen StokesSeptember 25, 2019
William Plumer Jacobs (1842-1917), a native of Yorkville, South Carolina, was a Presbyterian minister and…
Karen StokesDecember 20, 2018
The bloody conflict of 1861 to 1865 is often called the Civil War, but most…
Karen StokesJuly 4, 2018
Fort Sumter in Charleston, South Carolina, is known as the place where the “Civil War”…
Karen StokesApril 16, 2018
When you hear or read about the burning of Columbia, General Sherman’s principal target in…
Karen StokesFebruary 15, 2018
Many of the destructive ideas and “isms” of our century in America had their roots…
Karen StokesMarch 13, 2017
In 1864, General William T. Sherman wrote to a fellow Union officer that the “false…
Karen StokesFebruary 17, 2017
This essay was presented at the 2016 Abbeville Institute Summer School. When I was young…
Karen StokesDecember 21, 2016
William Porcher DuBose of South Carolina is not well known today, but in the early…
Karen StokesDecember 15, 2016
Lately there has been mention of Dr. Thomas Smyth in two Abbeville Institute blog and…
Karen StokesJune 23, 2016
The most recent issue of Hallowed Ground, a publication of the Civil War Trust, features…
Karen StokesMay 11, 2016
Some historians have suggested that General William T. Sherman's terror campaign through the deep South…
Karen StokesApril 14, 2016
In 1872, Daniel W. Voorhees, a Congressman of Indiana, made a speech in the U.S.…
Karen StokesFebruary 8, 2016
THE IMMORTALS: A STORY OF LOVE AND WAR In 1861, as a deadly conflict looms…
Karen StokesDecember 29, 2015
In the 1850s, Ann Pamela Cunningham, a frail woman from South Carolina, was responsible for…
Karen StokesDecember 21, 2015
In 1865, a writer for Harper’s New Monthly Magazine described Charleston, South Carolina, contrasting her…
Karen StokesOctober 23, 2015
About the author: Elizabeth Otis Marshall Dannelly (1838-1896), a native of Madison, Georgia, was a…
Karen StokesSeptember 15, 2015
South Carolina is not known for great surfing, but a native son named Alexander Hume…
Karen StokesJuly 16, 2015
In her famous diary, Mary Chesnut called Mrs. Louisa S. McCord “the very cleverest woman”…
Karen StokesJune 19, 2015
Promoted over four senior captains just a few days shy of his nineteenth birthday, James…
Karen StokesApril 9, 2015
John Mitchel (1815-1875) was a fiery Irish nationalist who was convicted of treason by the…
Karen StokesMarch 17, 2015
On February 5, 1865, the last of General Sherman’s troops crossed the Savannah River into…
Karen StokesFebruary 16, 2015
By mid- January 1865, General Sherman’s campaign in South Carolina had begun in earnest. Some…
Karen StokesJanuary 30, 2015
January 2015 ushers in the last year of the sesquicentennial of the War for Southern…
Karen StokesJanuary 7, 2015
Born in 1816, Ann Pamela Cunningham was raised at Rosemont, a plantation on the Saluda…
Karen StokesDecember 18, 2014
Lately, media outlets have been giving some attention to the 150th anniversary of General William…
Karen StokesNovember 28, 2014
Acclaimed in his time as the “Calhoun of the Church,” James Henley Thornwell was a…
Karen StokesNovember 11, 2014
By October 1864, the city of Charleston, South Carolina had been undergoing a bombardment for…
Karen StokesOctober 23, 2014
During the War Between the States, thousands of Americans were incarcerated for political reasons in…
Karen StokesOctober 7, 2014
After the War Between the States began, President Abraham Lincoln suspended the writ of habeas…
Karen StokesSeptember 19, 2014
Because of the 1989 movie Glory, many Americans know of the battle on Morris Island…
Karen StokesAugust 29, 2014
Maria Henrietta Pinckney (1782-1836) of South Carolina was the daughter of General Charles Cotesworth Pinckney,…
Karen StokesAugust 22, 2014
Writing in 1913, historian Nathaniel Wright Stephenson explained the political situation in America thus: “It…
Karen StokesAugust 5, 2014
From May through early July 1863, Vicksburg, Mississippi, a strategically important city on the Mississippi…
Karen StokesJuly 2, 2014
During the time of the secession of South Carolina and other Southern states, and after…
Karen StokesJune 9, 2014
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