Historical events that took place during the Civil War and Reconstruction era.
Time has a way of softening even the most violent moments in history. The South is full of places where the land has slowly reclaimed what once happened upon it. The trenches filled in. The fences rotted away. The cannons and wagons disappeared. Grass grew where soldiers once stood. Many of these forgotten battlefields were…
Language has a remarkable way of outliving the voices that first gave it breath. While the last echoes of the Civil War faded more than 160 years ago, many of the words muttered around smoky campfires and shouted along dusty marching roads still vibrate through modern American speech. Some of these idioms originated long before…