THE TEXAS SCRIBBLER

Still a few weeks away from Cavalry Scout Books getting my new Civil War novel up on Amazon–only after which will we begin promoting it by name with links–but in the meantime I’m discovering that the web really is home to a lot of CW material, especially enthusiast sites and blogs. Many are worth a [...]

I bought this software because it was about a tenth the price of Adobe’s Photoshop and, supposedly, does most of the same things. Indeed, it’s been dandy for creating DIY book covers for POD efforts, though it takes patience and careful following of the User Guide.
I’m just about ready to produce my Civil War historical [...]

One of the great things about the Web is that I usually learn something new every day. Like this: that the great grandson (the only son of the only son of the only son) of the famous Confederate cavalry general was a B-17 pilot in World War II, who perished after being shot down in [...]

Louis Armstrong undoubtedly would not be politically correct were he still alive. But he was a great trumpet player and jazz performer and his signature song, which he recorded dozens of times, lately keeps running through my mind:
"Pale moon shining on the fields belowFolks are crooning songs soft and lowNeedn’t tell me so because I [...]

Named for the man who invented it, not the bird. Parrotts were rifled cannon used on both sides, though mainly by the Union. They also figure in my Civil War novel which, so far, has garnered six rejections out of ten query letter submissions. Lots more to go before I give up, though.

The beginnings of Winder Hospital, which became one of Richmond’s largest in the Civil War, where my great grandfather, a private in Barksdale’s Mississippi Brigade, spent several months in 1862.
The post title, however, is that of this historical novel I recently finished about the training and coming-of-age of a young Virginia doctor during the war. [...]

It’s understandable, what with the whopping deficit that Barry & the Dems are running up, that Texas Gov. Rick Perry would want to run for re-election against the federal government. Especially when his likely primary opponent is U.S. Senator Kay Baily Hutchinson.
So, on the occasion of the Tax Day Tea Party protest, Perry decided [...]

Money, in other words, for the African-American community of American slave descent. An old black woman I knew near Holly Springs, MS, dead now for several years, was a plaintiff in a lawsuit designed to win economic reparations for slavery. She, whose grandparents had been owned by my maternal ancestors near Oxford, never expected to win and, [...]

I had a suspicion the Dems would want to prolong the economic agony as a way to help their presidential candidate. When the economy falters, as the saying goes, the voters turn to the party out of power. Hence liberal Big Media’s partisan assertion all year that we are in a recession, despite the lack [...]

Next Cinco de Mayo, it should be remembered that, without the help of American Civil War Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, it might have taken Mexico years longer to oust the French army and their Austrian puppet-monarch Maximillian I.
Grant considered the 1860s French invasion of Mexico (accompanied, at first, by the Spanish and British) to be [...]