A Year in the South: 1865: The True Story of Four Ordinary People Who Lived Through the Most Tumultuous Twelve Months in American History

By Stephen V. Ash

A year in the South

By Stephen V. Ash

"A Year in the South is about four ordinary people in an extraordinary time. They lived in the South during 1865 - a year that saw war, disunion, and slavery give way to peace, reconstruction, and...

Firebrand of Liberty

By Stephen V. Ash

Secessionists and other scoundrels

By Brownlow William Gannaway

East Tennessee newspaper editor and Methodist preacher William G. "Parson" Brownlow, a man of fervent principles and combative temperament, gained fame during the secession crisis as a staunch, out...

When the Yankees came

By Stephen V. Ash

Southerners whose communities were invaded by the Union army during the Civil War endured a profoundly painful ordeal. For most, the coming of the Yankees was a nightmare become real; for some, it...

A massacre in Memphis

By Stephen V. Ash

"An unprecedented account of one of the bloodiest and most significant racial clashes in American history In May 1866, just a year after the Civil War ended, Memphis erupted in a three-day spasm of...

Massacre In Memphis

By Stephen V. Ash

When the Yankees Came

By Stephen V. Ash

Knoxville News Sentinal

By Stephen Ash

Past Times

By Stephen V. Ash