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Total War in Georgia

By Karen Stokes

In June 1863, Fitzgerald Ross, a British military man who was collecting information about the war in America, paid a visit to Richmond, Virginia, the capital city of the Confederacy. There he met with some… »

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  • War Crimes
  • War for Southern Independence

A Night to Remember

By Karen Stokes

The diary of Emma LeConte is one of the best known documents chronicling the sack and destruction of Columbia, South Carolina. On February 17, 1865, the city surrendered to the besieging army of General William… »

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  • War Crimes
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  • William T. Sherman

A [r]epublican in Exile

By Karen Stokes

In Washington, D.C., while serving as Secretary of War in the 1850s, Jefferson Davis met Ambrose Dudley Mann, a native of Virginia who was the Assistant Secretary of State (and the first man to hold… »

  • Ambrose Dudley Mann
  • Jefferson Davis
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  • Southern Culture
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A Forgotten Spiritual Hero

By Karen Stokes

Daniel Baker (1791-1857) is all but forgotten today, but in the first half of the nineteenth century this Presbyterian minister was a well-known and profoundly influential evangelist in America.  Born in Midway, Georgia, he was… »

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The South’s Gifts to Posterity

By Karen Stokes

What does the South have to offer that is valuable to humanity, to civilization? In 1939, the Pulitzer prize-winning historian Douglas Southall Freeman proposed an answer to this question in his book The South to… »

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  • Southern History
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We the People of South Carolina….

By Karen Stokes

William Plumer Jacobs (1842-1917), a native of Yorkville, South Carolina, was a Presbyterian minister and scholar whose entire life has been called “a singular consecration to work and service in behalf of his fellow men.”… »

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The Spirit of ’61

By Karen Stokes

The bloody conflict of 1861 to 1865 is often called the Civil War, but most Southerners regarded it as a war for independence and self-government. Many if not most Confederate soldiers and officers who fought… »

  • American War for Independence
  • James Henley Thornwell
  • Karen Stokes
  • War for Southern Independence

A Bloodless Victory

By Karen Stokes

Fort Sumter in Charleston, South Carolina, is known as the place where the “Civil War” began. The South is normally portrayed as the aggressor, the side which fired the “first shot,” and is thus given… »

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  • Francis W. Pickens
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Northern Lies about the Burning of Columbia

By Karen Stokes

When you hear or read about the burning of Columbia, General Sherman’s principal target in South Carolina, you are often told that the origin of the fire is a historical mystery that can’t be conclusively… »

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  • War Crimes
  • War for Southern Independence
  • William T. Sherman

The Timely Wisdom of Robert Lewis Dabney

By Karen Stokes

Many of the destructive ideas and “isms” of our century in America had their roots in the 18th and 19th centuries, and a number of Southern writers and clergymen recognized their nature and warned against… »

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  • Robert Lewis Dabney
  • Southern Religion

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