It was Friday afternoon and a typical winter day in Vicksburg in 1869. Federal troops, garrisoned in the city to “reconstruct” it, policed the muddy streets....
There’s a small white stone in the Dockery family graveyard at Lamartine in Columbia County, Arkansas, with the simple inscription “Truce” on it, and therein lies...
Verse by great poets has been written in honor of a louse — and possibly other critters — but it was a Vicksburg attorney who delivered...
One of the old Vicksburg trollies made its way up Washington Street Thursday on its way to its temporary home in the Blackburn building. It was...
Friday, Oct. 16, was or is (depending on when you read this) National Boss’s Day, and it caused me to reflect on some bosses I’ve had...
She told a tragic tale: Her name was Marie, and her husband had been a Union soldier who moved to Vicksburg and married her after the...
WQBC radio was believed to be the oldest radio station in the state of Mississippi. Operating on AM frequency 1420, the call letters were reportedly for...
“I’m thinking of running for the office of tax collector,” the voice on the phone said. “What do you think about this?” The caller was Marguerite...
Dressed in riding jodhpurs, a frock coat and fashionable boots and hat — and with a $10,000 diamond ring covering half of his finger — Tom...
As shots rang out just above the trees, the boys who were perched among the branches “came out of those trees like overripe pears falling,” wrote...
