Chicamaugua Battle Field, a reminder that our freedom is not free.
This tower is one of the many memorials that fill the expansive Chickamauga Battle Field. Traveling south with our friends the Elliotts, we…
Category: Civil War history
The Old Mill, a scene right out of Gone with the Wind
They had me at Gone With the Wind. Who wouldn’t want to see the Old Mill that was used in the opening credits…
Pike County’s Civil War Flag & Historic Museums!
The 3rd weekend of October is a special time in Illinois’s Pike County. The Fall Color Drive brings visitors to this county known…
Walk Through Beautiful Downtown Baker City
Before meeting Timothy Bishop of the Baker City Tourism Bureau for an early morning breakfast at the Lone Pine Cafe I took a…
Fighting for Uncle Sam, Read About the Buffalo Soldiers in the Frontier Army as you travel along!
On a recent trip to Cedar Rapids I immersed myself in African American Military history with the book, “Fighting for Uncle Sam, Buffalo…