Book Signing with Roger Newman at Main Street Reads, Summerville, SC

by DrRoger | Sep 14, 2021 | Roger Newman Author

Join us at Main Street Reads (115 S Main St, Summerville, SC) for a special book signing with Charleston’s own Roger B. Newman, with his newly released, Will O’ the Wisp: Madness, War, and Recompense. Roger Newman, M.D. is a novelist, academic Maternal-Fetal Medicine...

Charleston’s Secret Blockade Running Backdoor

by DrRoger | Sep 14, 2021 | Roger Newman Author

By the latter half of 1863, the Union blockade of Charleston had matured and the majority of blockade runners who sailed under the cover of the night never returned. Looking to improve his odds, Captain Jack Holmes sailed the “Will O’ the Wisp”...

The Charleston Mercury

by DrRoger | Sep 4, 2021 | Roger Newman Author

The foundational cracks in the Union over slavery and the issue of States’ Rights were necessarily exploited by a parade of Southern nationalists promoting a narrative passionate enough to stir men to action, move them into the streets, beat the drums, shout...

Swamp Angel Rains Terror on Charleston

by DrRoger | Sep 1, 2021 | Roger Newman Author

By the fall of 1863, Charleston faced a new and unprecedented threat. With the capture of Morris Island, the Union Army constructed a long-range, two-hundred-pound Parrott rifle hidden in the Morris Island marsh grass. The cannon was dubbed the “Swamp...

Why did Charlestonians eventually succumb to the madness of secession?

by DrRoger | Aug 14, 2021 | Roger Newman Author

Then, as well as now, Charleston prefers an unhurried pace and a conservative nature. Charleston’s charms provide too many diversions from rebellious indignation. Charleston’s planter elite balanced their radical politics with an equally ardent taste for...