One year after his death, Bob Clements, the man who served as the public face of Northern Kentucky’s only Civil War museum, is being remembered. In Civil War times, it was common to name a camp for a fallen comrade. This year, organizers of the Civil War-themed Battery Hooper Days, the event that Clements started [...]
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July 9th, 2013 
javal Perhaps the last remaining man with living memory of a Civil War veteran, Isham C. Holland died July 3 at his home in Fulton. The 95-year-old former educator, pastor and historian died after he was released from the hospital earlier in the week. Holland’s memories of his grandfather, Confederate Capt. T.C. Holland, were particularly timely. [...]
Gordon Bricken dies at 76; uncovered Santa Ana’s Civil War ties
June 28th, 2013 javal A former Santa Ana mayor turned headstone hunter, Gordon Bricken explored Orange County cemeteries to document how many Civil War veterans were buried there — and then set out to tell their tales. One astonishing story: The influx of hundreds of soldiers to the region following war’s end in 1865 included virtually all of the [...]
Civil War detective buried with soldiers he championed
February 26th, 2013 javal A century and a half ago, a Minnesota farm boy named John O. Dolson took a bullet at Gettysburg and died slowly in a military hospital, the sound of bone-saws and screams surrounding him. As a last indignity, officials there recorded his death with a string of errors, misspelling his name, mistaking his unit and [...]
History buff co-founded Civil War re-enactment outfit
August 31st, 2012 javal The news spread fast on Friday, July 6, that Maine had lost a dedicated Civil War historian and re-enactor. Gordon McRae, 63, of Eddington had died suddenly of an apparent heart attack on that sunny Friday. His loss has been felt immensely by his wife, Amy, and his daughters, Andrea McRae and Wendy Lynds, and [...]
DAUGHTER OF CIVIL WAR VET DIES
June 15th, 2012 javal The Civil War, which ended almost 150 years ago, never seemed like ancient history to Stella Mae Case. Her father fought in it. Yes, her father. Before she died last Sunday at age 94, Case was among the few people in the entire country who were one generation removed from that epic conflict — one [...]
Alabama’s last known real daughter of the Confederacy buried in Cullman
January 10th, 2012 javal Alabama’s last known real daughter of Confederacy, Norma Vivian Smith, was buried today in Cullman. Smith, 89, who died Jan. 7, was the daughter of Thomas Jefferson Denney, a soldier who fought in the Civil War as part of Company H in the 31st Alabama Infantry regiment. Smith’s brother, Tyus, lives in Tarrant and is [...]
A fitting farewell: Pa. funeral honors Civil War re-enactor’s service, love of history
January 10th, 2012 javal Monica McIlvain never wanted to keep her promise to John L. “Jack” Wible Jr. Years ago, Wible, who had played his cornet at numerous military funerals over the years, made McIlvain promise that if there were no bugler at his funeral, she would play taps for him. So on Friday morning, on the hilltop of [...]