Looking for the Confederate War

   Mention Civil Defense (Cold War) or Civilian Defense (World War II), and we get pictures of Air Raid Wardens, the Aircraft Warning Serv...

    For anyone wishing to research a person, regiment, or just about anything else connected to the War, the first place to stop is the Comp...

   In reading through Jefferson Davis’s papers, there is an interesting discussion regarding a train. It is April 1865. Davis and most of th...

     For a week, Jefferson Davis and the Confederate cabinet had called Charlotte, North Carolina, home. Numerous meetings had taken place, ...

     Prisoners of war were an inconvenient reality of the war years. When the first batches arrived in Richmond following the battle of firs...

 Many times, people ask where I get ideas. And to be honest, many of my ideas are connected. That first book on the 37 th North Carolina le...

   There are many different types of Confederate hospitals. A regiment in camp early on in the war would set up a hospital in a tent or lo...

   A couple of weeks ago, I wrote on the captured CS papers in Charlotte at the end of the war. You can catch that article here . What was...

Post-war image of the Mecklenburg County Courthouse      To my knowledge (limited, I know), there has only been one article ever w...

One aspect of the War that has always been of interest to me is the role of transportation. In our world, we can easily travel from place t...

Every so often, some message will be floating around on facebook that goes something along these lines: "If you could go back in histo...

Anytime you are researching and have more than one source, you run into the possibility of the sources not agreeing. Such is the case of th...