Looking for the Confederate War

   We seem to have this idea about the Overland Campaign of 1864. Overall Federal commander U.S. Grant was going to steal a march on Robert ...

When someone mentions Confederate submarines, everyone thinks of the C.S.S. Hunley , and rightfully so. The Hunley did become the first sub...

Monument at Fort Fisher.     Has the importance of Fort Fisher and the great Wilmington area been missed in the historiography of the past 1...

   While the exact number of citizens arrested by the Lincoln Administration during the war is unknown (13,000-38,000) we really know the st...

Once a year, I make the trip from the mountains to Fort Fisher, to speak at during the "Beat the Heat" speaker series. It is usua...