Sam Richards, an Atlanta businessman and Southern Baptist who fled the city for New York following Sherman’s capture of the city, today arrives back in Atlanta. Like many other middle class white Southerners (of whom there are relatively few, actually) who did not serve during the war, whether having temporarily lived in the North or…
Today in Montgomery, Alabama an “old negro woman” enters one of city’s “principle churches,” walks down the church aisle, and sits down in a seat of her choice. The woman, after all, is now free. Or so she might think. A white church member quickly intercedes, “politely” telling her that the church has “prepared another…
The paroling of Confederate soldiers continues. Among today’s paroled Confederates is Felix Winchester Magee (1845-1924) of Winchester, Texas. The ceremony takes place in Brazos County. At a mere 16 years of age Magee enlisted in Company D, 12th Regiment, Texas Infantry, on January 17, 1862. Discharged five months later once his age was discovered, he…