Touch the Elbow - Blogging the Civil War

I promise, after this post we’re out of Richmond and headed down the road toward Appomattox Court House. But what better way to wrap up this visit than to take a look at my final stop and the final resting place for over 75,000 people, Hollywood Cemetery. I’m only sorry that I visited before spring had a chance to fully chase away the dead of winter, because I imagine the cemetery to be gorgeous when everything is in bloom. In fact, to show the contrast, I’m providing this link to an absolutely terrific Web site, “Richmond, Then and Now,” and, in particular, their photo tour of the cemetery.

The best form of government is that which is most likely to prevent the greatest sum of evil.




The institutions under which we live, my countrymen, secure each person in the perfect enjoyment of all his rights.





General, I have no division.



Go back! Go Back! And do your duty, as I have done mine, and our country will be safe. Go back! Go back! I would rather die than be whipped.




If the Confederacy fails, there should be written on its tombstone: Died of a Theory.



To live and die for Dixie



Look away, look away, look away....Dixie land