Searching through Blood Meridian, by Cormac McCarthy, I came across what I think was Cormac McCarthy himself giving a sly hint to the origin of the book… at the very meridian of the story. ***SPOILER ALERT*** I was looking at John Sepich’s website at these two notes on Blood Meridian as a palindrome, the first an essay by Christopher Forbis, and the second…
Tag: Civil War
The Untouched Battlefield of Honey Hill
According to his daughter’s application to join the United Daughters of the Confederacy, Lemuel Edwards “participated in three battles.” Those battles were the battles of Griswoldville, Honey Hill, and Savannah. In the summer of 2016, I obtained permission from the town of Ridgeland, South Carolina, to explore the breastworks located in the snake-infested woods off Highway 336.…
The Last Confederate Rifle
More than forty years after the guns of the Civil War fell silent, one battle-worn Confederate rifle was still shooting at Uncle Sam’s soldiers. Although President Teddy Roosevelt declared victory in the Philippine-American War in the summer of 1902, four years later, an insurgent group of Muslim Filipino native tribes known as the Moros continued to do battle…