Rebellion and Deprivation: An Often Forgotten Association

by DrRoger | Oct 18, 2021 | Roger Newman Author

Many books and stories have focused on the politics and passions that inflamed the South and resulted in the Civil War. Scarlett O’Hara is put out by the revolutionary zeal and secession excitement that ruins her coming out party at Tara. Puffed up by narrow...

The Perfect Christmas Gift Idea??

by DrRoger | Oct 18, 2021 | Roger Newman Author

Just saw a news article last night about the uncertain availability of popular Christmas gifts this year as well as increased prices. Lack of supply, production line delays, underemployment, etc. An attempt by the COVID Grinch to steal another Christmas. May I humbly...

Jefferson Davis: The First American President to Attempt to Dissolve the Union

by DrRoger | Oct 6, 2021 | Roger Newman Author

In every discussion of my new book, Will O’ the Wisp: Madness, War, and Recompense, the conversation eventually turns to the enigmatic Confederate President, Jefferson Davis. History has not been kind to Jefferson Davis as the leader of a failed insurrection...

Great Book Signing Events for Will O’ the Wisp: Madness, War, and Recompense

by DrRoger | Oct 5, 2021 | Roger Newman Author

The response to the recently published, “Will O’ the Wisp: Madness, War, and Recompense”, by Roger Newman has been wonderful. Recent book signings were held in Belmar, New Jersey, The Reverie in North Charleston, S.C., and, most recently, at Main...

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...

Union Frustration with the Phantom-like Blockade Runners

by DrRoger | Aug 10, 2021 | Roger Newman Author

The ability of the Southern Blockade runners, like the “Will O’ the Wisp” to pass undetected between them at night so immensely frustrated the Union captains in command of the Charleston blockade that they began to refer to the runners as...