One of Tallahassee’s most quaint features is Old Fort Park, a moat-surrounded earthworks erected during the Civil War. Legend holds it was hastily constructed in March 1865 when U.S. Army troops landed at St. Marks during the Civil War. But apparently the fort was one of several constructed around Tallahassee in 1864 when the Union [...]
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Civil War reenactment draws crowd with realism
March 4th, 2013 
javal Jay Welch is used to hearing the boom of cannon fire every year at the Natural Bridge Historic State Park, but he still flinches. It’s hard to blame him. More than 1,000 attendees came out for the park’s 36th annual reenactment of the Battle of Natural Bridge. Everyone gasped, flinched or screamed once the cannons [...]
Darien to observe 150th anniversary of town’s burning in Civil War
February 25th, 2013 javal Evidence of the worst day in the city’s history rests in a black garbage bag at Fort King George State Historic Site. Aside from tough tabby foundations, the brittle pieces of wood with charred edges are all that’s left of the warehouses that once stood on Darien River when the city was a thriving seaport. [...]
Confederate group splits, says it’s not a civil war
September 10th, 2012 javal The Tampa camp of the Sons of Confederate Veterans is dealing with a secession of its own. The Gen. Jubal A. Early Camp No. 556 was chartered nine years ago and had boasted more than 100 members. But earlier this year, about a dozen Sons, unhappy with the group’s direction, created their own confederacy, the [...]
Civil War novelist Jeff Shaara to speak at USF
May 24th, 2012 javal Shiloh, Jeff Shaara said, did not exist on a map. There was no such town. No such place. It was the biblical name of a small community church in southwestern Tennessee and the backdrop of one of the Civil War’s bloodiest and perhaps most pivotal battles. Read More>>
Civil War re-enactors returning to Panama City
April 19th, 2012 javal In 1861 as the Civil War began, William Greene Peacock enlisted in the Gulf State Guards. Nearly 150 years later his grandnephew did the same thing. About five years ago Stan Peacock helped form the Gulf State Guards, a re-enactment group named after the company from CivilWar-era Jackson County. Read More>>
Southern pageantry honors Confederate major
April 19th, 2012 javal It is as plain as the ice in our sweet tea that there are things — valuable, important things — Southerners do far better than our regional cousins. These things include, but are not limited to, barbecue, college football, tradition, bragging and whiskey-making. At the top of our list of superior qualities — indeed, it [...]
Centuries later, kin of Confederate soldier pay last respects
January 10th, 2012 javal Black gunpowder cannon explosions will boom over a newly marked Confederate grave Saturday at Pilgrims Rest Cemetery, where a past commander of a Sons of Confederate Veterans camp has finally learned the location of his great, great grandfather’s burial site. Ed Halligan of South Daytona said he has always respected veterans from both sides of [...]