Looking for the Confederate War

    There were several places that bore the name of Crab Orchard during the Civil War. Crab Orchard, Kentucky, was probably the most famous,...

 Johnson County is tucked far up into the corner of east Tennessee, boarded by North Carolina to the east and Virginia to the north. In 1860...

We tend to write and talk a lot about Tar Heel regiments in the Army of Northern Virginia. And rightfully so. That is where the bulk of Nor...

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...

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...

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....

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’ll tell you how I got on this topic before we go any further. I ordered and received a new dress jacket the other day for interpretation a...

Folks, I started this county survey long before the holidays. I am just now finishing it. I could not find much that took place in Clay Coun...

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: ...

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