Looking for the Confederate War

Lt. Gen. James Longstreet A lot of ink has been spilt over the decades on Gen. James Longstreet and the Gettysburg campaign. Believing that ...

   Memphis was both an old city and a new city when the war began. Native Americans, like the Chickasaw and their ancestors, had inhabited t...

   There was one goal for army commanders: to obliterate the opponent. While this was their objective, it seldom happened. The enemy often e...

 Why preserve battlefields? That’s a great question. If we were to present that question to the millions of men who fought during the 1860s,...

Jefferson Davis      During the war years, it was fairly common for presidents, or army commanders, or a congress to call for days of thanks...

You've probably figured out that I like lists of books. For several years, I've kept a list of North Carolina counties and their ...