Thousands of men had to learn how to live together
When Francis Marion Poore arrived at the camp of military instruction at Corinth, Mississippi, in May 1861, he probably didn’t …
Monthly Archives: July 2012
Training for Civil War began with militia muster
Not long after Mississippi seceded, Francis Marion Poore enlisted in the Newton Rifles, the first company of militia organized in …
What role did faith play in your ancestor’s Civil War?
Traci Nichols Belt and Gordon T. Belt, authors of Onward Southern Soldiers: Religion and the Army of Tennessee in the …
Confederates marked two revolutions on Fourth of July
Confederate soldiers considered themselves heirs to the American Revolution. And indeed they were. William Hearne, great grandfather of rebel Francis …
