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Robin Ford Wallace
Nov 6, 20183 min read
Don't Miss Free Lecture on Civil War Medical Practices This Thursday
(Contributed photo.) If you are a Civil War buff, then you will miss a great event if you do not attend the Dade County Historical...
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Robin Ford Wallace
Nov 6, 20185 min read
A Vision Takes Shape (Battlefield Series, Part VI)
Very soon after the end of the Civil War, people in significant numbers began to visit the former battlefields. There is no way to know...
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Robin Ford Wallace
Oct 22, 20184 min read
An Idea Grows at Chickamauga (Battlefield Series Part V)
On Sept. 19, 1889, the 26th anniversary of the Battle of Chickamauga, an amazing event took place on ground that had once been the...
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Robin Ford Wallace
Oct 15, 20187 min read
Reprise: Hell With the Lid Off: Dade Coal Mines 1886
Notes: Our Saturday meeting was solid with about 10 members, and 10 more arrived for my talk on Dade Coal Company, mining and life at a...
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Robin Ford Wallace
Oct 7, 20186 min read
Reconciliation: An Idea Takes Shape (Battlefield Series, Part IV)
One of my favorite Civil War historians was a man named Shelby Foote, a native Mississippian with a wonderful, very patrician, very slow...
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Robin Ford Wallace
Oct 4, 20182 min read
Where Trails Converge: Commemorating the 180th Anniversary of the Trail of Tears
(Photo: "Trail of Tears," historical painting by Max D. Standley) On Saturday, Oct. 13, and Sunday, Oct. 14, Chickamauga and Chattanooga...
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Robin Ford Wallace
Sep 23, 20186 min read
Reunion in Small Steps: A Yankee Comes South (Battlefield Series, Part 3)
On 6 July 1876, a wedding took place in Dade County, probably on Lookout Mountain, that had great significance not only for the way it...
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Robin Ford Wallace
Sep 9, 20186 min read
Post-Civil War Healing Trend Starts in a Little Town Named Fitzgerald (Battlefield Series: Article I
Twenty years after the end of the Civil War, things were still broken in the newly re-United States. The South was in a terrible...
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Robin Ford Wallace
Sep 2, 20186 min read
A Jewel in Our Midst
One of the strange things about human nature is our tendency to ignore things that are most familiar to us because we see them...
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Robin Ford Wallace
Aug 30, 20181 min read
155th Anniversary of the Battle of Chickamauga
Photo: James Walker painting of the battle (from the Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park website.) Fort Oglethorpe,...
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Robin Ford Wallace
Aug 29, 20184 min read
Ann Withrow Tatum-Thurman, A Strong Woman of Changing Times
(Editor's Note: This is part 2 of Donna's account of M.A.B. Tatum, who in last week's episode fell to his death from a train.) Ann Tatum...
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Robin Ford Wallace
Aug 19, 20184 min read
Historically Speaking: M.A.B. Tatum Loses Life by Walking Off Train in 1897
Photo from Ancestry.com. The family member who posted this picture notes that this is most likely the last photograph taken of Brad...
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Robin Ford Wallace
Aug 5, 20183 min read
Historically Speaking: Marion Asher Braddock Tatum 1844-1897--Home Town Boy Makes Good, Part 1
You may remember Robert Haley Tatum from the legend of Dade seceding from the Union. He has been touted as the bold man who rose in the...
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Robin Ford Wallace
Jul 30, 20184 min read
Dade History: A Day To Remember in Dade--Part II
This is a continuation of Joy Odom's article on the hanging of John Retherford. If you'd like to read Part I, here's a link:...
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Robin Ford Wallace
Jul 22, 20184 min read
Dade History: A Day to Remember in Dade County, Part I
Over the last years of the 1800s and the early 1900s, a number of public hangings were carried out by law enforcement agencies in Dade...
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Robin Ford Wallace
Jul 15, 20186 min read
Historically Speaking: Facts You May Not Know or Remember about Dade County
There are some residents who will know every one of the facts included in this article. Doubtless there are many who will find some of...
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Robin Ford Wallace
Jun 25, 20185 min read
Historically Speaking: The Independent State of Dade--The LEGEND Still Lives
Holding a special edition of The Dade County Times which was published in the Confederate colors of blue and gray, announcing the return...
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Robin Ford Wallace
Jun 24, 20183 min read
Historically Speaking: Interesting Note Pad: Head of a Whiskey Barrel
Note: This article was originally written in April 2015. It is the follow-up article to the one printed last week. It is a good precursor...
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Robin Ford Wallace
Jun 19, 20181 min read
Living History Program at National Military Park Commemorates Local Connection at WWI Centennial
Fort Oglethorpe, Ga.--In June 1918, the Battle of Belleau Wood raged in France. At this battle and throughout the European continent,...
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Robin Ford Wallace
Jun 14, 20181 min read
Historical Society Genealogy Workshop Saturday
Come and join us on Saturday morning, June 16, at 10:30 for the quarterly meeting followed by a genealogy workshop. The meeting will be...
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