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In the brilliant summer of 1861, when he marches off to war from his beloved home in the Yadkin River Valley, Capt. William Henry Asbury Speer does not expect to be captured. He will fight, and with the Lord’s help, his side will prevail. Or he will die valiantly on the field of honor. Either way, he believes he is bound for glory. In this, he is exactly like so many soldiers on either side. He is a reluctant soldier, an opponent of secession who loves his homeplace deeply enough to defend it. He descended from Ulster Scots who intermarried

Retired Navy Capt. William L. McGonagle, who received the Medal of Honor for heroism as skipper of the USS Liberty when Israel unleashed a deadly attack on the intelligence-gathering ship in 1967, has died. He was 73. Captain McGonagle died Wednesday in Palm Springs, where he lived, said Donald Pageler, editor of the Liberty News, a newsletter of the ship's survivors association. He did not know the cause of death. Thirty-four crewmen were killed and 171 were wounded when the Liberty was attacked by Israeli air force planes and torpedo boats in international waters north of Sinai during the Six Day War between Israel and its Arab neighbors.