Category: Civil War

February 8, 2024

President Lincoln issued General Order No. 252 on July 30, 1863, ordering the equal treatment of soldiers taken as prisoners…

August 1, 2015

Black History:  Special Delivery!! Some may be familiar with the Plessey v. Ferguson Supreme Court decision that made “segregation” of…

July 21, 2015

In 1865, General George Sherman gave orders that lands confiscated from confederate landowners during the civil war be re-assigned to…