Looking for the Confederate War
Historian Michael C. Hardy's quest to understand Confederate history, from the boots up.
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Monday, October 05, 2026
Civil Defense and the Confederacy
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Mention Civil Defense (Cold War) or Civilian Defense (World War II), and we get pictures of Air Raid Wardens, the Aircraft Warning Serv...
Sunday, September 13, 2026
The French Lady and the Lincoln Assassination
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We don’t discuss much about Lincoln here on Looking for the Confederate War, really only once that I can recall, and it was on Lewis Pow...
Monday, April 06, 2026
What Happened to the Food Sent to Amelia Court House?
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It is a fairly well known story about the war. In 1865, Robert E. Lee asked that rations for his army be sent to Amelia Court House. Afte...
Friday, April 03, 2026
Robert E. Lee, Jefferson Davis, and biographer Frank Alfriend
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Recently, on one of the online auction sites, a letter from Robert E. Lee to Jefferson Davis was listed. Lee, writing on April 2, 1868, t...
Sunday, November 02, 2025
The 7th Florida Takes Prisoners to Richmond
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Several times in the past, I have written about prisons, concentrating on prison guards ( here ) and moving prisoners across the South ( ...
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