Looking for the Confederate War

   Burke County, North Carolina, has come up several times over the years here on Looking for the Confederate War. You can learn more about ...

   One of the most popular posts I have written over the years is “Was the Home Guard Really That Bad?” It was published in September 2014 a...

  Robert E. Lee once remarked that “I don’t believe we can have an army without music.” [1] Lee was referencing the brass band of the 26 th...

Ok. That one is pretty easy. Almost everyone agrees it was the 18th North Carolina Troops who shot Jackson. It was not their fault: it was ...

For the past couple of weeks, I've been poring over the various accounts of the Shelton Laurel event in January 1863. A little bac...

This past weekend, I was in Gettysburg, and I found a good deal on a used drum for living history/reenacting programs. I had a drum when...

Since I am leading a discussion about the War and Macon County this afternoon (at the Hudson Library in Highlands), I thought maybe we w...

Tomorrow night, I will be heading up the Burke County Civil War Round Table at the Burke County History Museum, so I thought we might spen...

It seems that I've been making an annual January   trip to Charlotte the past two or three years. The annual trip always seems to coinci...

Recently, I’ve been working through several volumes of published letters from North Carolina Confederate soldiers. One thing I have noticed ...

Our friends in the 26th North Carolina Troops Reactivated are hard at work on their next preservation project. They are currently raising fu...

Madison County won a little poll that I put up a couple of weeks ago as the county that I would write about next in our survey of the Civil ...

It’s been a while since I posted one of my county histories. So, I thought this morning, we would look at Rockingham County. Rockingham Coun...

For our next county survey, I thought we would look at Henderson County. In 1838, the southern part of Buncombe County was taken to create H...