Sunday, November 02, 2025

The 7th Florida Takes Prisoners to Richmond

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   Several times in the past, I have written about prisons, concentrating on prison guards ( here ) and moving prisoners across the South ( ...
Monday, October 27, 2025

The Confederate graves at Arlington

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    At a recent event, someone posed a question about the Confederate graves at Arlington. His ancestor is one of the ones in Section 16. Bu...
Tuesday, September 30, 2025

Robert E. Lee’s Compiled Service Record

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    For anyone wishing to research a person, regiment, or just about anything else connected to the War, the first place to stop is the Comp...
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Saturday, August 30, 2025

A Union officers’ thoughts on the South

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  So many times, we want to see the War as a conflict pitting a unified North against a unified South. Nothing could be further from the tru...
Wednesday, July 16, 2025

Saving Pamplin Historical Park: Its Story, My Story, How You Can Help

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     On July 16, 2025, my friend Chris Mackowski hit the airwaves for Emerging Civil War News with a fantastic announcement: the American Ba...
Wednesday, June 11, 2025

Nassau Bacon – from Ohio

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        “We are eating new beautiful onions from Nassau,” Charles Blackford wrote in June 1864. Blackford was Longstreet’s assistant judge...
Thursday, May 22, 2025

The Deadliest Single Shot of the War

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   The Civil War looks different in different parts of the country. The guerrilla actions in Missouri and Western North Carolina are a far c...