Honor and tragedy through his eyes, hand

The paintings of Red Grooms, one of Nashville's most respected artists, hang in museums and galleries worldwide. Now, Grooms' look at the Civil War is on display at the Tennessee State Museum. Civil War images haunted Grooms' life from its beginning. Long before attending Hillsboro High School, he discovered that his boyhood home sat just a stone's throw from the site of the Battle of Nashville in 1864. • Article

Judge rules battle painting belongs to ex-mayor

A judge's decision quietly ended a long-running fight among former and current city officials over a painting of the biggest naval battle of the Civil War. Baldwin County Circuit Court Judge Charles Partin ruled that former Mayor Arthur Holk loaned -- but did not give -- the 1941 painting of the Battle of Mobile Bay to the city of Foley, Ala. • Article

19-panel painting depicts Forrest's battles

If a picture is worth a thousand words, then Ken Scott's house in Cordova, Tenn., contains an entire history book spread across the walls of his third-floor den. Scott's late father, artist Fred V. Scott, left Ken and his three siblings the legacy of a 19-panel painting that commemorates the Civil War battles of Nathan Bedford Forrest in Tennessee, which when lined up end-to-end create a U-shaped, panoramic view of the state's bloodiest era. • Article