As described in yesterday’s post, America was at a momentous crossroads as March moved into April, and none of the options looked good. About the only thing the leadership of both sides could agree on was that nobody wanted to initiate the American Civil War. In his...
Tensions were about as taunt as they could be in Charleston during the spring of 1861. For decades, since before the Nullification Crisis of 1820, South Carolina had nursed grievances against the U.S. government regarding the spread of slavery to new territories and...
Remembered as one of America’s Founding Fathers, Charles Pinckney (1757-1824) served as a delegate to the Third Continental Congress in 1777-1778 at the tender age of 20. He fought with the Patriots at the Siege of Savannah and was captured when Charleston fell to the...
When people hear the name Clara Barton, the first thing that usually comes to mind is her role as founder of the American Red Cross. She began her humanitarian career as a military nurse during the Civil War but later expanded the Red Cross’s core mission by...
The story of Harriet Tubman, who died on this date in 1913, is one of bravery, cunning, and commitment to the ideals of freedom, not only for herself but also for others enslaved in the American South in the 1850s and early ‘60s. Born a slave who escaped to freedom,...
