Quote of the day
There'll always be working people in my poems because I grew up with them, and I am a poet of memory.
William C. Oates
Born: November 30, 1835
Died: September 9, 1910 (aged 74)
Bio: William Calvin Oates was a Confederate colonel during the American Civil War, the 29th Governor of Alabama from 1894 to 1896, and a brigadier general in the U.S. Army during the Spanish American War.







