Looking for the Confederate War

    Several years ago, I wrote a post about the way the Confederate army was racially integrated. Actually, I’ve written on that subject a c...

   While researching my upcoming book on the battle of Plymouth (Savas Beatie), I came across one of the few accounts of the execution of a ...

   There was more than one Camp Holmes during the war. In September 1861, there was Camp Holmes  in the Fredericksburg area. [1] Another wa...

   We have talked about Confederate currency once before – Lucy Pickens, the first woman on American paper money. You can check out that p...

    Fortifications below Wilmington, and along the Cape Fear River in North Carolina, began not long after North Carolina left the Union. T...

     It is easy to miss the exit for Darien, Georgia, while zipping along I-95. Yet while the Federals did not have Eisenhower’s interstate ...

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

      Lt. Col. William S. Pierson Hoffman’s Battalion was in a pickle. A group of new prisoners recently captured at the fall of Port Hudson...

   On a few occasions, I’ve blogged about African-Americans in the Confederate army. It is a subject that needs much more objective explor...

   It seems that any time that documentation is presented regarding Free People of Color volunteering and fighting as Confederate soldiers...