Spotsylvania Memory
Thursday, June 26, 2014
Jehu Williams
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Jehu Williams In about 1720 young David Shion Williams, born in Wales in 1699, boarded one of the many sailing ships plying the At...
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Tuesday, June 17, 2014
The Taking of Jacob Lyman Greene
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Jacob Lyman Greene Two years ago I wrote a detailed analysis of the letter written by Maria Dobyns of Oakley plantation in Spotsy...
Sunday, May 25, 2014
Wilcox & Kinsey
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Wilcox & Kinsey, 1870s Sometimes something as simple as a business card piques my interest and spurs me to dig a little deepe...
Monday, April 28, 2014
Ancestors at the Museum
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Photo courtesy of John Cummings Recently Terry Dougherty, director of the Spotsylvania Museum, and museum specialist Liz M. Clay...
Wednesday, April 16, 2014
"I would charge hell itself"
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General John Gregg One of the most emotionally charged moments of the Civil War occurred on Widow Tapp's farm on Orange Plank ...
Monday, April 7, 2014
Corporal William White and the Wrong Man
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, Western Spotsylvania County, 1863 Today's tale comes from the superb Civil War diary of artillerist William S. White, which ...
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Tuesday, March 18, 2014
Greenfield and the Battle of the Wilderness
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Nancy Estes Row and her daughters. Lynchburg, about 1870. Although my ancestors would have likely disagreed with me, the Rows of G...
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