David H. Jones | October 27, 2009
October marks the beginning of the American Civil War Sesquicentennial. A century and a half ago on October 16, 1859, John Brown raided the town of Harpers Ferry and the Federal Arsenal at the confluence of the Shenandoah and Potomac rivers. Local militia soon forced the insurgents to retreat into the engine house shown above [...]
David H. Jones | October 6, 2009
While visiting Confederate Hill at Louden Park Cemetery near Baltimore last year, we admired the fine monument that the men of Captain William H. Murray’s company erected to his memory in 1874. His death leading an ill-fated charge on Culp’s Hill during the third day of the Battle of Gettysburg was mourned throughout the battalion [...]
David H. Jones | October 3, 2009
I received an e-mail from Mark C. Higgins of Spiritsearch Investigations about additional ghostly activity at the Exchange Hotel in Gordonsville, Virginia which served as a Confederate Receiving Hospital during the Civil War. Mark took this photograph of what appears to be a skeleton shaped figure coming out of the fireplace in the hotel parlour. Also, a [...]
David H. Jones | October 2, 2009
We enjoyed doing two book signing events at the Author’s Bookshop booth at the Baltimore Book Festival this past weekend. The photo above shows me enjoying a stimulating conversation with Brad Grochowski, proprietor of AuthorsBookShop.Com, an online bookseller that primarily handles independently published books for sale to the public. Brad has created a home for indie [...]
