Looking for the Confederate War

   “You have shot my friends! You have destroyed my staff!” In the confusion of the night of May 2, 1863, Maj. Gen. A.P. Hill and members of...

   Born in Virginia in 1831, William F. Randolph had ties to some of the best families in Virginia.  It probably came as a surprise when the...

Friends - I had a chance recently to sit down with Paul at Untold Civil War. We chatted about Lee's Body Guard: The 39th Battalion Virgi...

   According to the Library of Congress’s Civil War Desk Reference, there were 211,411 Federal soldiers taken prisoner during the war. Of...

   Over the years, I have collected quite a few volumes on the War. They include general reference works, biographies of military and poli...

Friends, I am now taking pre-orders for signed copies of Lee's Body Guard: The 39th Battalion Virginia Cavalry. I expect to mail copie...

For the past several months, I posted several times on the role of couriers, mounted couriers, within the Army of Northern Virginia. Of co...

   Yesterday afternoon, I submitted to the publisher my manuscript on the 39th Battalion Virginia Cavalry, also known as Lee's Headqua...

On April 9, 1865, Pvt. Joshua O. Johns rode into the village of Appomattox Court House. He was one of three Confederates on the grounds of...

Lee, Marshall, and Johns.     I'm not sure of the source of this scene that is floating around in my head. Maybe it is a painting,...

Lee's bed, table, and camp chest. (Museum of the Confederacy)     For several weeks, I was reading deeply into the history of th...