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From the handbook of Texas online– NIMITZ, CHARLES HENRY (1826–1911). Charles Henry Nimitz, pioneering Fredericksburg hotelier, son of Karl Heinrich (Charles Henry) and Dorothea Magdalena (Dressel) Nimitz, was born in Bremen, Lower Saxony, on November 9, 1826. He joined the German merchant marine at the age of fourteen and followed his family to Sullivan Island,…

From The Immortal Captives by Mauriel Phillips Joslyn Morris Island For Rations we were furnished with three army crackers per day, and a half pint of soup. The crackers were issued in the morning and I the following manner: Two poles eight or ten feet long were attached one to either side of a cracker…

“As they met the Union force on the West Point road, Morgan formed her women into a line of battle. Colonel LaGrange did not mention the incident in his official report, but members of the Nancy Harts later recalled that a captured Confederate major intervened to prevent bloodshed. Bringing LaGrange forward, he introduced him to…

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?GRid=10425149&page=gr Civil War Figure. When she was only 10, her father enlisted to serve in the Civil War, and her mother went along as a nurse. Delity was an only child at the time, so she went along with her mother and also served as a nurse, tending to injured troops. She was captured and…

Someone from Yahoo with whom I have exchanged some messages asked if I heard that Jefferson Davis had murdered a man during the War. I said I had never heard that and he sent me the following: I was in the West Palm Beach, Florida Round table for about 8 years. We had over 80…

I was in an exchange of message on another board with some real uneducated folks. Their basic argument is that the Confederate ware traitors and they wanted to destory our country (The United States). At this time none of there have been able to prove treason, or even the act of secession was illegal in…

I have had this letter for several years, I cannot remember who sent it to me or who transcribed it. I beleive “Ward” may be kin to me since we are both from the same part of Mississippi and I am guessing a Ward relative sent this to me. I have not proved kinship yet.…

My response to the article posted at http://www.cnn.com/2010/OPINION/04/14/hale.confederate.history.race/ GP ********************************************************** Ms. Hale, I am appalled that you think Confederate History Month only means the four years the Confederate army fought for freedom and independence against an invading, overwhelming army of men and material . It means much more than that. It means studying the causes…

The principle, on which the war was waged by the North, was simply this: That men may rightfully be compelled to submit to, and support, a government that they do not want; and that resistance, on their part, makes them traitors and criminals. No principle, that is possible to be named, can be more self-evidently…

I’d like to tell you about the greatest conflict our nation ever fought, the War Between the States. Between 4 and 5 million men saw service in this war, and 625,000 men died during its brutal course. More men died during the conflict than in all of our nations wars combined, from the Revolution to…