The ‘Confederate Column’ – a Times-Picayune Newspaper Feature

By Thomas Jay Kemp on May 15, 2015

In 1902 the Times-Picayune newspaper ran this large ad on the front page of their 28 February issue. This was the start of a regular feature – the “Confederate Column” – designed: to tell of men whose acts of individual heroism do not figure in battle reports…[and] to set in strong light the genius... (Read More)