Tagged: illinois

August 30, 2011

Capture of Paducah, Kentucky; fighting at Carnifex Ferry, Virginia, and Lexington, Missouri: September 1861

September 1861 in the Civil War There were no battles that were on the scale of those at Bull Run, Virginia and Wilson’s Creek, Missouri in July and August, but there were some significant smaller...

Poetry / Post War / The Arts

August 26, 2010

John Wilkes Booth in Hell

John Wilkes Booth turns up in an early 20th century poem, ever the villain, playing the sax in hell