Looking for the Confederate War

   It seems that any time that documentation is presented regarding Free People of Color volunteering and fighting as Confederate soldiers...

A week or so ago, I picked up a copy of D. Michael Thomas's Wade Hampton's Iron Scouts: Confederate Special Forces, released b...

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...

Flags held a special place of honor among many of the soldiers we study and write about. Many men gave their lives for these banners, an...

In the county studies that I have written in the past, I’ve shied away from the large cities and their respective counties in the state. I j...

Here is the first installment. Tell me what you like and don’t like. Well, I guess I will start with the county that I know the most about: ...