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Fly Out,” performed by Paul Burch. Burch started his career in Nashville in the early ’90s singing in honky-tonk bars, and catching the eye of such notables as Marianne Faithfull and Chet Atkins. In 2003, he released his fourth album Fool For Love, which featured guest appearances by Mark Knopfler, Tim O’Brien, and Ralph Stanley. His songs have appeared in several film and television shows, such as The Appalachians, The Rookie, and A History of Violence. “Sparks Fly Out” is a playful tune, an ideal backdrop to Jason’s attempt to woo jaded Tara. He strokes her, claiming he can feel sparks along the length of her arm. Anyone else and it would be creepy, but it’s intense because as surely as we believe Jason thinks he’s experiencing an effervescent sensation, we, the viewers, know how Tara feels about him, and that on just about any other day of the week she would have jumped at the chance to be his Pop Rocks.

The Times of Bill Compton: Surviving the Deadliest War in American History

The American Civil War resulted in the deaths of 620,000 soldiers and an untold number of civilians. Following the war, three amendments were added to the Constitution — the 13th abolished slavery, the 14th created the extension of legal protection regardless of race, and the 15th abolished all racial restrictions on voting.

Fought from 1861 to 1865, the American Civil War was the result of ongoing tensions between the Northern and Southern states on issues of slavery and states’ rights. The main areas of difference included the expansion of slavery (and the retention of it in states in which it already existed), the South’s plummeting political power, and individual states’ rights.

Following the 1860 election of Abraham Lincoln, who was against the expansion of slavery, 11 Southern states seceded and formed the Confederate States of America, also known as the Confederacy, led by Jefferson Davies. They fought against the United States, also known as the Union, which was supported by the free states in which slavery was either prohibited or had been eliminated, and the five border slave states.

Southern troops won many victories until Gettysburg and Vicksburg in 1863, when the North hit their stride, conquering the South into surrender in April 1865. On April 14, five days after the South’s surrender, President Lincoln was assassinated while at a play at Ford’s Theatre in Washington. John Wilkes Booth, the assassin, was killed by Union troops shortly thereafter while fleeing. Vice President Andrew Johnson rose to the seat of president.

The period that followed was called the Reconstruction, during which Union troops occupied Southern states while they reintegrated into the Union.

The following essay by Lisafemmeacadienne, a Louisianan teacher, author, linguistics specialist, and dedicated Billsbabe, originally appeared as a guest post at The Vault (www.trueblood-online.com) and evokes memories of Bill’s journey home, cut short when he stopped at Lorena’s for food and rest, and what his family would have suffered through in his absence.

The Reconstruction Period in Louisiana by Lisafemmeacadienne

Lavish ball gowns adorning doe-eyed maidens, fanning themselves on a sweltering Louisiana night, waiting for a dance with a suitor as minstrels play a lively waltz. Couples strolling arm in arm along a meandering bayou as the wind gently blows the Spanish moss draped from the ancient oaks.

The Antebellum period: a romanticized view of Louisiana before the Civil War. Everything changed when Louisiana seceded from the Union in 1861, and brought the War of Northern Aggression to Louisiana’s rivers and bayous.

After the Civil War came Reconstruction. It was a time of division, poverty, disease, starvation, and death. The phrase “brother against brother” held true during this time, as families divided over allegiances to the Union (the U.S. government) or “The Cause” (states’ rights).

After the men were released from the Louisiana Regiments, they made their way home. Some did not make it due to lack of transportation,