Looking for the Confederate War

   There have been tens of thousands of books written about the war. Even with that seemingly gluttonous number, there are huge gaps in that...

  “There are very few unexplored topics concerning the history of the American Civil War,” is how Patrick H. Garrow starts Changing Sides: U...

    Many decades ago, in an old Dixie Gun Works catalog, I gained a bit of wisdom. The editor was writing about building a library. A librar...

Often, people ask me about books. And that’s ok. I’ve read a few over the past three decades. At times, it is really hard to answer those ...

    When I wrote the chapter on brigade medical care for General Lee’s Immortals, I relied upon five   books (secondary sources) to provi...

   Recently, I acquired a copy of Joan Cashin's War Stuff: The Struggle for Human and Environmental Resources in the American Civil Wa...

    One thing is for certain when dealing with literature of the 1860s: it's as deep as it is broad. Ever since the war ended, veteran...

   I am always on the lookout for books about North Carolina and the War. The vast majority of the tomes I have written are on the subject...

   As many of you know, I've been reading a great deal about Confederate cavalry in the east in preparation for my own history of the ...

A week or so ago, I picked up a copy of D. Michael Thomas's Wade Hampton's Iron Scouts: Confederate Special Forces, released b...

From time to time, I've made posts on growing a good library. If you have unlimited funds, then you can order away and stock you shelve...

A few days ago, I saw a poll on facebook, asking people what areas still need coverage regarding the war. Well in front of the pack was ...

It should not come as any surprise, but I read lots of books every year. They are for research, for reviews, even for fun. A couple of week...

The new issue of J19 arrived yesterday, and I was reading an essay by Jillian Spivey Caddell entitled "Words of War." The author ...

As I near the completion of the Branch-Lane manuscript, I think back about some of the secondary sources that have come out since I finishe...

Most of you know that I collect books. One of the cornerstones of that collection is any book that deals with North Carolina and the War. T...

I am extremely blessed that I get to spend my days with some great writers and historians. Recently, I To Antietam Creek . It is a fantasti...

Recently, I have acquired three new books that deal with North Carolina and the War. Let's take a brief look at the three. The ne...

Recently, I finished reading Fear in North Carolina: The Civil War Journals and Letters of the Henry Family, edited by Karen Clinard an...

I was rooting around this evening, and noticed that McFarland has several upcoming books relating to North Carolina and the War, schedul...