Looking for the Confederate War

  Confederate countermine at Fort Mahone (LOC)    The battle of the Crater is a fairly well-known event during the war. Federal general Ambr...

Col. John S. Mosby              “The Marble Man” and the “Gray Ghost.” If we mention those two names, Robert E. Lee and John S. Mosby come t...

No sooner had the last shot of the war ended than there was a push to write a history of the conflict. Edward A. Pollard, a newspaper editor...

 Robert E. Lee is one of the most written-about subjects in American history. There are scores of books, hundreds of articles, a few documen...

Lt. Gen. James Longstreet A lot of ink has been spilt over the decades on Gen. James Longstreet and the Gettysburg campaign. Believing that ...

    Recently, while reading through Charlie Knight’s From Arlington to Appomattox, Robert E. Lee’s Civil War Day by Day, I came across a li...

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