Writer of Creative Nonfiction, Fiction, Poetry and Master Photographer
In Chapter 13 of my book Galvanized, I write about how the Confederate monuments originated in North Carolina. The story can be connected to two cemeteries in Raleigh: Rock Quarry and Oakwood. During the occupation of Raleigh by the Union army, troops stayed in Pettigrew Hospital in Raleigh. The hospital overlooked a plot of land…
There’s more material about General Robert E. Lee than a person could read in a lifetime. However, there was a Confederate captain named Robert J. “Bob” Lee who kept his personal war going for nearly half a decade after the Civil War ended who is barely known outside Texas. When the war broke out, Lee…