Posted in From the Stacks, History, Tar Heelia on July 28, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Think you can find this spot today? At least there are a few clues. Here’s what we do know. The photo above was likely taken in Guilford County by Mary Grace Canfield in the 1920s. Canfield (1864-1946) was born in the Connecticut Western Reserve (territory that is now a part of Ohio) and educated at [...]
Posted in Just A Bite, tagged civil war generals, durham nc herald, gettysburg, president eisenhower, raleigh news and observer, robert e. lee, shelby nc star, viscount montgomery on July 28, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
“When President Eisenhower and Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery jocularly agreed that Generals Lee and Meade should have been ‘sacked’ for their blunders at Gettysburg, they committed themselves irrevocably to battle…. ” ‘President Eisenhower,’ sputtered the Shelby, N.C. Star, ‘must have lost his mind.’ “[But] the Raleigh, N.C. News and Observer argued that Lee’s own view [...]
