Showing posts with label 64th NCT. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 64th NCT. Show all posts
Sunday, September 06, 2026

North Carolina's Mars Hill College and the War

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   Mars Hill. That’s an interesting name for a place. In western North Carolina, in the rugged mountains of Southern Appalachia, is the smal...
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Thursday, January 27, 2022

Confederate General John W. Frazer and the capture of Cumberland Gap

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   Brig. Gen. John W. Frazer was in an awkward position. As Braxton Bragg stripped Confederate forces from east Tennessee to strengthen the ...
Saturday, January 30, 2021

Site Visit Saturday: Cumberland Gap

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  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! ...
Monday, March 20, 2017

Why didn't they stay?

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   On September 1, 1863, Joseph Grubb, a private in the 4th Tennessee Infantry (US), made a recruiting sweep through the Laurel community o...
Thursday, February 09, 2017

Trying to find the Shelton Laurel Officers

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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...
Monday, May 31, 2010

Another Tour

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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...
Monday, March 29, 2010

"Bloody Madison" continued

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I was in Madison County this past Saturday, and I took a few photos to help illustrate the Madison County pieces. I hope you enjoy. North C...
Thursday, March 25, 2010

Bloody Madison

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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 ...
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