by Gordon Thorsby Current day Bridge across the Catawba River, Rock Hill SC Stoneman’s Raid of 1865 is considered the longest raid of the...

By Gordon Thorsby Ft. Sumter (LOC) For students and historians of the Civil War, there are many questions and controversies about...

by Gordon Thorsby Lt. David Jackson Logan, 17th South Carolina (Pre-War) On December 28, 1860, David Jackson wrote home mentioning the...

by Gordon Thorsby "A noble brother lost somewhere there around the trenches but no trace could I find of him. O' Solitude, where are the...

by Gordon Thorsby Painter Conrad Wise Chapman, CSA 1861-65 Private John A. James, a soldier in the Army of Tennessee in Winter Camp at...

by Gordon Thorsby The Army of the Tennessee and the Army of Georgia were now in motion. South Carolina started the war and Sherman’s two...