By Kurt Vetters University of North Alabama My good friend and mentor historian Greg Gresham introduced me to the rich vein of history found in the memoirs of men who
By Greg Gresham North Alabama Civil War Roundtable Please read the Part No. 1 post for background on “The man labelled as P–.” Normally it’s almost impossible to determine the
By Greg Gresham North Alabama Civil War Roundtable When I was a child, during the school-less summers the boys in my neighborhood would often tramp to the nearby woods to
By Greg Gresham North Alabama Civil War Round Table If you’ve ever been in Pope’s Tavern Museum, you might remember seeing an extremely large cannonball, much bigger than anything you
By Jordan Collier Assistant Genealogy and Local History Librarian Florence-Lauderdale Public Library Here’s a Civil War trivia question for you: Which (in)famous Union general crossed the Tennessee River at Waterloo
By Greg Gresham North Alabama Civil War Round Table On June 6, 1895, one Henry Newton Pharr sat down in his home at Lagrange, Arkansas, to write a tribute to