Looking for the Confederate War

    For many, remembering the war brought painful thoughts of the past. Commanders of companies and regiments frequently had to relive the w...

 The Blue versus the Gray, or the North versus the South, is often how we interpret the two opposing sides during the war. That is true to a...

    Thanks to the Westerns that many of us watched growing up, we are familiar with the idea of “circling the wagons.” In an effort to provi...

   As the war ground to a close, orders went out for the arrest of various political figures, including both sitting governors and former go...

   As far as we can tell, the Confederate government never adopted a National Anthem. That might seem odd, but the “Star Spangled Banner” wa...

   When we think of war-time women prisoners, a few famous spies, like Belle Boyd, Rose O’Neal Greenhow, and maybe Pauline Cushman come to m...

   In February 2010, History (you know, the “Hitler” channel, and later, the “Aliens” channel) published a piece entitled “Sherman’s March ...