Looking for the Confederate War
Historian Michael C. Hardy's quest to understand Confederate history, from the boots up.
Monday, August 03, 2026
The Three Trials of William Holland Thomas
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Thomas’s Legion is one of those Confederate infantry organizations with almost mythical status. In a day and time when Native Americans i...
Sunday, July 19, 2026
More Confederate diversity – the Bunker brothers
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Several years ago, I wrote a post about the way the Confederate army was racially integrated. Actually, I’ve written on that subject a c...
Wednesday, April 22, 2026
Marking Lee’s Headquarters of Appomattox
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A wooden board mark's Lee HQ Recently, I acquired a postcard of Robert E. Lee’s last headquarters at Appomattox. In the turn- of-the-...
Monday, April 06, 2026
What Happened to the Food Sent to Amelia Court House?
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It is a fairly well known story about the war. In 1865, Robert E. Lee asked that rations for his army be sent to Amelia Court House. Afte...
Friday, April 03, 2026
Robert E. Lee, Jefferson Davis, and biographer Frank Alfriend
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Recently, on one of the online auction sites, a letter from Robert E. Lee to Jefferson Davis was listed. Lee, writing on April 2, 1868, t...
Monday, March 23, 2026
Robert E. Lee’s Railroad Gun
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The War brought some emerging technology to the forefront, innovations like repeating rifles and ironclad ships. The railroad was used to...
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