“Where is the victim’s voice?” You hold in your hands the answer to that question. The Victim’s Voice, a new publication of the Office of the Attorney General is designed to give voice to the concerns of victims
and survivors of crime...
(Photograph taken in civilian clothes.) Graduated from West Point, 1852. Resigned his U.S. Army commission and was appointed as a captain in the Confederate Army in April 1861. Promoted to brigadier general in April 1863. Major campaigns and...
At the start of the Civil War, Hubert Dent was a 1st lieutenant of the Eufaula Rifles, which became Company B of the 1st Alabama Infantry; he was eventually promoted to captain and commanded Dent's Battery (formerly Robertson's Battery). In the...
During the Civil War, Riggs served in Company G of the 27th Mississippi Infantry Regiment. In the letter he discusses the recent death of his brother, Charlie, who had been sick with typhoid fever: "Oh when...I tink [sic] that my only Brother is no...