Posted in On This Day, tagged civil war nc, salisbury nc on March 18, 2013 | Leave a Comment »
On this day in 1863: Hungry and unable to pay inflated prices, 75 Salisbury women, most of them wives of Confederate soldiers, arm themselves with axes and go in search of hoarded food. The railroad agent turns them away from the depot, claiming he has no flour. They break into a warehouse, taking 10 barrels, [...]
Posted in Just A Bite, tagged allen c guelzo, battle of seven pines, civil war nc, fateful lightning on February 19, 2013 | Leave a Comment »
“Many of the Civil War’s legendary charges in the face of the enemy were made by soldiers who had been drugged into near insensibility by the liberal dispensing of hard liquor…. “The 16th North Carolina went into action at Seven Pines [Henrico County, Virginia] after the company commissary ‘hobbled down with several canteens of “fire [...]
