On June 2, 1861 the first organized land battle of the Civil War happened at Philippi, in the Appalachian region of Virginia. Forces under the command of Major General George
Loyalties were divided in Appalachia, from Kentucky to Tennessee to North Carolina. And it was in western North Carolina that a Confederate army unit committed an atrocity against Union sympathizers
I recently took a trip to Bristol, Virginia, to get some photographs for an upcoming podcast on the Walnut Grove plantation and decided to pull out the video camera when
In the 1860s a Cherokee witch doctor arrived in Bristol, Virginia, to assist in the local Confederate hospital with her salves and potions. After the war she invested her meager
At the start of the Civil War, the Appalachian part of Tennessee voted 2-1 to remain a part of the United States in that state’s secession vote. When Tennessee left
On this day in 1861, Maryville, Tennessee, son, Sam Houston, was expelled from the office of Governor of Texas for refusing to take a loyalty oath to the Confederacy when
Born in North Carolina, then moving to what’s now West Virginia, Nancy Hart Douglas was a Confederate guide, scout and spy during the Civil War. We tell her story on
Today Rod brings us a story about the mystery surrounding the disappearance of the Confederate treasury after the end of the Civil War. You can subscribe to Stories on RadioPublic,