Tag: battlefield preservation
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Finding Fort Owen
Believe it or not there are still “lost” Civil War forts that occasionally come to light. One such was Fort Owen, which played a brief but pivotal role in the events of April 2, 1865 at Petersburg. Named after Louisiana artillery officer Col. William Miller Owen, the fort had a short life, being constructed in […]
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How Meth Labs and Civil War Preservation Are Linked
According to a recent report by the watchdog group Citizens Against Government Waste, a recent $2,000,000 land expansion project by the Chickamauga Chattanooga National Military Park and the organization of a Tennessee Meth Lab Task Force in Chattanooga are both examples of pork barrel projects in the Chattanooga area. In a news article on the […]
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“My ground is more sacred than your ground!”
In my previous life as a newspaper writer, I found myself having to deal with all kinds of zealots. But the worst were environmentalists (even more so than religious nuts). I never met a group of people so sure they were right and everyone else was wrong who didn’t agree with their point of view. […]