Category Archives: Families Divided By The War

Reprise: Stonewall’s Unionist Sister

Posted on September 15, 2011 by

One of the themes of Knoxville 1863 is the bitter division of the town and surrounding area between Unionists and Confederates. Leila Ellis, Confederate Major Clayton Ellis’s widow, is herself a Union sympathizer. Not to mention Knoxville Unionist Elisa Brownlow’s … Continue reading →

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Robert E. Lee’s Unionist sister

Posted on January 18, 2011 by

Many families were torn apart by the war, a fact that buttresses my fictional creation Parthenia Leila Ellis, the Unionist widow of Confederate Major Clayton Ellis of Knoxville. Many such divisions were unsung at the time, the principals being little … Continue reading →

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Nursing the wounded

Posted on August 13, 2010 by

Howard Pyle’s Civil War art, an illustration for a 19th century magazine story, keyed to the text and titled “I thought of you when I fell.” Not precisely my idea of what Mrs. Parthenia Leila Ellis looked like, but probably … Continue reading →

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Stonewall’s Unionist sister

Posted on August 11, 2010 by

One of the themes of Knoxville 1863 is the bitter division of the town and surrounding area between Unionists and Confederates. Leila Ellis, Confederate Major Clayton Ellis’s widow, is herself a Union sympathizer. Not to mention Knoxville Unionist Elisa Brownlow’s … Continue reading →

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