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Showing posts with label Spring Hill. Show all posts

Showing posts with label Spring Hill. Show all posts

Saturday, June 29, 2019

Last days of Richard Ewell, who sparked Gettysburg furor

A December 2009 image of the farmhouse in Spring Hill, Tenn., where Richard Ewell lived after the Civil War with his wife, Lizinka. Th...

Saturday, November 24, 2018

Witness to war: On a Tennessee plantation, a lone slave cabin

Of the 12 slave cabins that once stood on the Rippavilla Plantation, this is the last one that remains. (CLICK ON IMAGES TO ENLARGE.) ...

Saturday, August 25, 2018

Spring Hill (Tenn.) video: While Rebels slept, Yankees escaped

Like this blog on Facebook On the night of Nov. 29, 1864, the bulk of John Schofield’s Army of the Cumberland slipped past the Confe...

Sunday, June 10, 2018

Where a womanizing warrior made his HQ in Tennessee

CLICK ON ALL IMAGES TO ENLARGE Like this blog on Facebook Earl Van Dorn Welcome to White Hall, the mansion in Spring Hill, Tenn.,...

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John Banks: John Banks is author of A Civil War Road Trip Of A Lifetime, Connecticut Yankees at Antietam and Hidden History of Connecticut Union Soldiers. His work has been featured in The New York Times, Civil War Times, Civil War Monitor, Civil War News, America's Civil War and Military Images. Banks, who attended Mount Lebanon (Pa.) High School, graduated from West Virginia University (B.A. in journalism). A longtime journalist (The Dallas Morning News, ESPN, The History Channel), he is secretary-treasurer of The Center for Civil War Photography.

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