Looking for the Confederate War

    History is full of little moments, little events that make up a larger picture. The gruesome events at Limestone Cove, in present-day U...

    Recently, The Scuppernong Press released a small book, edited by Donna Peeler Poteat, on Salisbury Prison. It is actually a post-war rem...

Louis Brown, in his book on the Salisbury Prison, has a long list of civilian prisoners incarcerated at the North Carolina stockade. One o...

During the war, the numerous hollows and caves in western North Carolina provided numerous places for deserters (from both armies), conscrip...