Looking for the Confederate War

  Patrick Cleburne    Churches occupy important places in our society. Many of them, and the grounds that surround them, are packed full of...

   It is an often-repeated phrase: women left behind in various Southern states had to adapt, often performing a wide range of tasks beyond ...

   Earlier this year, I started a series on prisoner of war camps in the South. One post was an overview of prisons ( here ), and another po...

    Battles fought during the 1860s often encompassed great swaths of ground. Gettysburg alone comes in at almost 18 square miles. As these ...

   Recently, I finished reading A Frenchman, A Chaplain, A Rebel: The War Letters of Pere Louis-Hippolyle Gache, S. J. (1981). Goche was b...

   No discussion about salt and the War is complete without some mentions of the Quakers, Moravians, and Wesleyan Methodists in central Nor...

You would think, after so many years of doing this, I would still not be dumbfounded at the lack of material in some aspects of our hist...

Lately, I've been slowly reading through Rable's God's Almost Chosen Peoples: A Religious History of the American Civil War. I c...