William Henry Metcalf was born on June 22, 1844 in Alabama, the son of Henry J. Metcalf and Nancy Judah. By 1848, the family was...

Henry Lewis Phillips was born on June 30, 1897 in Warrington, the son of Henry Enalda (1874-1951) and Lulu Phillips (1877-1939). The...

Private Celestine Ward, formerly of the 15th Confederate Cavalry, was forced to hurriedly move to Escambia County sometime after 1871 to...

John Hayden Christie, Jr. was born on October 8, 1895 in Pensacola, Florida, the son of John Hayden Sr. (1862–1934) and Mary Edwin Quina...

US Navy 2nd Class Electrician Henry Lewis Peake, son of Mrs. Frances Louisa Hahn (1877-1951) and Charles Henry Peake (1864-1896), never...

On August 1, 1943, the sun dawned bright in a cloudless sky as the bomber crews were heading to their breakfast and briefings. They had...

Mark Sublette stated that "On 20 February 1939, a squadron of twelve U.S. Navy aircraft, described as "fast combat ships", were returning...

The official dates of the Great Depression were from 1929 to 1939 and left over 15,000,000 workers unemployed and almost one-half of...

One of the most publicized Pensacola warriors of WWII was Sergeant Charles "Charlie" Henry Pohlmann Jr. He was born on February 1, 1923,...

James Edward Davis was born 1894 in Amherst County, Virginia. Little is known of his upbringing, but he entered the Virginia Military...

But on Wednesday afternoon of January 22nd a young boy by the name of W. Doyle Driver made his way quickly down Cervantes Street on his...

On August 14, 1911, Pensacola lawyer Richard Pope Reese and his wife attended the funeral of his stenographer and my aunt Miss Maude...

This post began back in November 2018, when I visited the "Old Muscogee Cemetery" in Cantonment. The cemetery is so heavily overgrown...

Back in November 2018, I visited the "Old Muscogee Cemetery" in Cantonment, which was so heavily overgrown that you could trip over the...

Martin Luther King was born on October 13, 1899 in Covington County, Alabama, the son of John Daniel King and Martha Wishum. His father...

Charlie Cornelius Miller, son of Mrs. Emma Miller was born on January 23, 1893 in Canoe, Alabama and inducted into the US Army in Brewton...

Louis Friedman was born in Hungary in 1859, immigrated to the United States in 1882, and received his naturalization two years later. His...

Red Bluff was located in Escambia County, Florida overlooking Escambia Bay off Scenic Highway and today's Labelle Terre Blvd. The...

A simple stone slab covered a small space close under the towering brick wall of the Saenger Theater of downtown Pensacola. This is...

Lewis William Sessions was born in Jay, Florida on February 23, 1919 to the union of Harvey B. Sessions (1880-1970) and Susie E. Baas...