Book Signing with Pulitzer Prize-Winning Journalist Howell Raines

Join Pulitzer Prize winning journalist and former New York Times executive editor Howell Raines as he discusses and signs copies of his latest book that tells the truth about Alabama soldiers who fought for the Union in the Civil War,  “Silent Cavalry, How Union Soldiers from Alabama Helped Sherman Burn Atlanta and Then Got Written Out of History.”  Mr. Raines will discuss the book and sign copies following the talk.

“Silent Cavalry” chronicles the Union Army’s First Alabama Cavalry, an unsung 2,066-man regiment. The book brings to light a conspiracy that sought to undermine the accomplishments of these renegade southerners that fought in the Civil War. Research for the book turned up wartime documents that have recently been catalogued in the Alabama Department of Archives and History.

The book has received stellar reviews and reveals important historic facts about the division of southerners’ loyalties to the Confederacy that had been intentionally left out of history books for decades.

The author’s Alabama ties run deep. Born in Birmingham, he holds a BA from Birmingham Southern, master’s degree from the University of Alabama and has honorary doctorates from both institutions. He reported for the Birmingham News, Birmingham Post Herald, Tuscaloosa News and WBRC before moving to the Atlanta Journal , St. Petersburg Times and then the New York Times where positions in his 25-year tenure included White House Correspondent, London Bureau Chief,  Washington Bureau Chief, Editorial Page Editor and Executive Editor.

In 1993, he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for feature writing for “Grady’s Gift,” a New York Times Magazine article describing his friendship with Gradystein Williams Hutchinson, a Black housekeeper employed by his family during the era of segregation. He is the author of four previous books including “My Soul is Rested”, an oral history of the civil rights movement.