Thursday, August 13, 2015
Back To My Story
13. The War Was Over It was over, but nothing was the same. Having seen an over-abundance of death and dying in the wake of the more than 3200 battles and skirmishes fought in what was probably the most divided state in the Civil War, the Sanders Brothers of Tennessee were ready to fight for life...
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Monday, August 10, 2015
12. King Cotton Reigns
The State of Tennessee was the last State to leave the Union and join the Confederacy at the outbreak of the Civil War in 1861. Tennessee furnished more soldiers for the Confederate Army than any other State, and more soldiers for the Union Army than any other Southern State. The sons of James and...
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Sunday, August 9, 2015
11. Segue: Another Time, Another Place
In Anson County North Carolina, where the Pee Dee River flows, there is a ghost town. The second oldest town of that county, it was laid out and named and chartered in 1795. It had a post office, a school, an inn, a general store and a Baptist Church. It also had slaves. In 1809, the year that...
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Saturday, August 8, 2015
10. In Its Own Time
At the last year's County Fair Ivory had found himself a wife. She was a hard-working sweet little thing and the family loved her. When they found themselves expecting a baby, they wanted a place of their own. They moved off to Roff in the Chickasaw Nation Indian Territory, thirty miles from...
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Friday, August 7, 2015
9. Freedom From Prejudice
As C_C_T noted in his last comment, The Simpsons, especially the three ladies were feeling high, ecstatic from their feeling of freedom from the prejudice that they had lived with in Missouri for the last twenty years. Dora and Ollie had never felt that freedom from the shame they had felt from...
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