Looking for the Confederate War

     Family histories and county heritages books are great resources. They contain family linages and histories, little pieces of the past t...

  Lay down boys, take a little nap Lay down boys, take a little nap Lay down boys, take a little nap 14 miles to the Cumberland Gap! ...

   He probably started off as a Confederate soldier, deserted, joined the Union army, and even had a fort named for him. But when it comes ...

Today, I had the opportunity to attend the unveiling of a marker remembering Robert B. Vance in Crosby, Tennessee. The marker was installed...

Some battlefields, like Gettysburg or Fort Fisher, I visit on a regular or at least annual schedule. Murfreesboro is not one of them. My f...

If you have the read this blog for any length of time, you probably already know a great deal about Avery County and the war. For the past t...

In about a week, I need to submit the paper I am presenting at the Civil War Memory Symposium that is taking place in Raleigh in May at the ...

I’ve probably said this before, and I’m sure I’ll say it again: I believe that every soldier’s grave should be marked by a tombstone. This p...

Recently, I was out with a friend cemetery crawling in Yancey County. And it was crawling. We were in some unmaintained cemeteries, looking ...

We had a chance this past Saturday to get out into the field once again. Our local SCV camp tries to take a field trip every year. This year...

Sorry for the lack of posts – I’ve been kind of busy and, unfortunately, I believe that this will continue for the next two or three weeks....

Once a man joined the army, he had little opportunity to get out. If he was an enlisted man, he could be discharged for some medical ailment...

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 ...

I think I was able to put two and two together this morning and come out with the original color company of the 58th NCT. The color guard of...

I started writing this blog yesterday, but I hit a road block. I’ll explain shortly – here is what I wrote: I like lists. And I look to know...

One of the articles that I read recently was David Keehn's "Strong Arm of Secession: The Knights of the Golden Circle in the Crisis...

After leaving Crow Valley Road, I drove a few miles north to visit the Chickamauga battlefield. I stopped by the information desk, and picke...