Duck! Second Chances by Tana Ford5/20/2023 ![]() Fabulous stories linger in the beautiful, rolling countryside a Confederate soldier called “God’s country.”Ī couple miles from where Pulley and I meet south of town, Union officer-turned-Confederate cavalry commander Frank Armstrong married President James Polk’s great-niece on April 27, 1863. ![]() Still ornery, I drive the next morning to Columbia, Civil War country about 50 miles south of downtown Nashville, for a rendezvous with Pulley, an expert on obscure Davis Ford and the Battle of Columbia. In a plastic box in the trunk rests a fluorescent, yellow cycling jacket-the perfect hiking attire. Poorer by $7.87, I toss my purchase into my duct-taped car and almost immediately suffer from buyer’s remorse. But in the men’s clothing section, another quarry is cornered: a gawd-awful, orange sweatshirt. ![]() No fan of becoming an inadvertent target of a deer hunter, I scour a big-box chain store for an orange vest. ![]() ![]() A Hike to Davis Ford, Where 22,000 Confederates Crossed the Duck River in 1864 Closeĭays before my visit to Davis Ford, a remote Duck River location near Columbia, Tenn., where 22,000 Confederates crossed in the late fall of 1864, guide Neal Pulley shoots me an eye-opening text: “Bring some orange. ![]()
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