Orville Vernon Burton Books
A Gentleman and an Officer
By Orville Vernon Burton, Judith N. McArthur
In 1861, James B. Griffin left Edgefield, South Carolina and rode off to Virginia to take up duty with the Confederate Army in a style that befitted a Southern gentleman: on a fine-blooded horse, w...
Read MoreThe free flag of Cuba
By Lucy Petaway Holcombe Pickens
"The wife of South Carolina secessionist governor Francis W. Pickens and known as the "Queen of the Confederacy," Lucy Holcombe Pickens (1832-1899) was during her lifetime one of the most famous wo...
Read MoreThe free flag of Cuba
By Lucy Petaway Holcombe Pickens
"The wife of South Carolina secessionist governor Francis W. Pickens and known as the "Queen of the Confederacy," Lucy Holcombe Pickens (1832-1899) was during her lifetime one of the most famous wo...
Read More