Incredible interview of Confederate Veteran Julius Franklin Howell. Delivering a wider perspective into the Civil War Era. Howell was born in Virginia in 1846, and he enlisted in the Confederate States Army in 1862 after many of his classmates were killed at Williamsburg during the Peninsula Campaign of the American Civil War. Howell served in the 24th Virginia Cavalry, and he served as a courier until 1864, when his regiment was moved to the north of Richmond as Robert E. Lee and Ulysses S. Gra

Is Big Lizz haunting white folks? 👻 🎃😮 "As the legend states, Big Lizz was enslaved in this region (Eastern Shore Maryland in Dorchester County) and her master was probably a smuggler or spy. Though there were no Civil War battles fought on the Eastern Shore, it’s believed that the Confederate Army stashed a good bit of its money on the southern-sympathetic farms of the Eastern Shore. Many of the (enslaved) African Americans spied for the Union Army, turning in known keepers of Confederate mo