Looking for the Confederate War

    Major General Benjamin F. Butler was in a tizzy. He had received a deposition from the provost marshal bearing incredible news, a note h...

   “Major, tell my father I died with my face to the enemy,” is a well-known last request made during the war. It was uttered by Col. Isaac ...

For many years, the people of North Carolina have been responsible for raising the funds to see to it that Confederate flags, entrusted to ...

Tomorrow night, I will be heading up the Burke County Civil War Round Table at the Burke County History Museum, so I thought we might spen...

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...

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....

I thought since so many of us (myself included) are snowed in, I would post a few snow-related stories from the war. I hope you enjoy. “We h...

It would be difficult to express the amount of times I have wish I could talk to the old veterans of the war. Questions about positions, fla...

While out and about on Sunday afternoon, I photographed another grave on Henson’s Creek (Avery County) that I thought I would share with you...

I thought I would spend a little more time dealing with Charlotte’s war-time history. Historiography: To my knowledge, there has only been o...

There have been two articles in national publications recently that talk about the finding and marking of Col. Isaac Avery’s grave. The firs...

Folks - I had a reader send me a couple of days ago this piece about the marking of the grave of Col. Isaac E. Avery of the 6th North Caroli...