by John Fox | Sep 24, 2013 | Blog
Thank you to the many folks who came to historic Hanover Tavern last Tuesday evening [9/17] for the national release of my newest book project. Stuart’s Finest Hour is the first book ever written that narrates Confederate general Jeb Stuart’s June 1862 cavalry raid...
by John Fox | Aug 19, 2013 | Blog
This is my first blog post in many months. The reason that I have been missing in action is because I have been either on an airline trip or in my home office finishing up Stuart’s Finest Hour: The Ride Around McClellan, June 1862. Well, 344 pages, 75 photos and 7...
by John Fox | Oct 20, 2012 | Blog
Last weekend, I headed with my family to Macon, Georgia to attend a niece’s wedding (Good luck Julian & Emily [Berry] Hutchins!). On Saturday morning, June 13, I walked through part of the white columned Sidney Lanier cottage prior to the arrival of brunch guests....
by John Fox | Jun 21, 2012 | Blog
Continued from previous post Several hours after sunup on Friday, June 13, 1862, John Mosby rode out ahead of Jeb Stuart’s Confederate cavalry column toward Hanover Court House. Mosby and his men soon bumped into a Federal patrol at the edge of the village....
by John Fox | Jun 13, 2012 | Blog
The 150th anniversary of Jeb Stuart’s famous Chickahominy Raid began two days ago. Stuart departed the Richmond area at 2 a.m. on June 12, 1862 and rode with 1,200 troopers north. Probably only Stuart and John Mosby knew the real destination as rumors floated up and...
by John Fox | Jan 30, 2012 | Blog
A book chock full of information about civilian life in Winchester during the War has just been published by the Winchester-Frederick County Historical Society. The hundreds of written pages from this wartime diary have resided in the Handley Library Archives [Stewart...