“I do not recollect of ever having heard such a roar of musketry.” So declares Thomas Jonathan Jackson after the First Battle of Kernstown in Virgina. Jackson is more popularly known as General “Stonewall” Jackson. Jackson and his 3,000 Confederate soldiers today fight a Union force of more than twice their size in an opening…
On farms and plantations North and South, early morning chores are underway when Union artillery fire at 5:15 a.m. breaks the silence of dawn at Manassas Junction, Virginia on this Sabbath day. The Battle of Manassas (so-named in the South) or Bull Run (in the North) has begun. U.S. Brig. Gen. Irvin McDowell’s Union forces…
Isaac Ball Feagin (1833-1900, born in Jones County, Georgia) is a merchant in Midway, Alabama, following a stint as deputy sheriff of the county (Barbour). He is of the Baptist faith. Today the Midway Guards of the Fifteenth Alabama infantry – which Feagin helped organize at the beginning of the war and was elected its…