Looking for the Confederate War

Monday night I was at Appalachian State (I was there Tuesday night also) systematically going through sources for the book on the 58th NCT. ...

After I posted about the resolution Brother Collins had reported on, expressing my desire to know their names, Keith Snipes wrote back. Here...

Don recently asked what bio on E. Kirby Smith I am planning to read. I have a copy of General Edmund Kirby Smith, C. S. A., written by Josep...

This past Saturday morning, I was digging around at my local library, and I found a book entitled A Baptist Looks Back by James Oliver Young...

Folks - I found this recently in the Charlotte Observer . I was kind of surprised. Regards, Michael THE SLAVE WHO WAS A SOLDIER: DAUGHTER SE...

I had a great time this past weekend at the Franklin reunion in Linville Falls. I had a chance to talk to many people who had ancestors who ...

You might have noticed that I have changed my photograph on the above header. Before, we had the Confederate monument in Greensboro. Now, it...

Often, in the many talks that I give, I get questions regarding the pro-Union sentiment of the mountains of western North Carolina. I often ...

I started my reading this past weekend on Braxton Bragg - are there any "good" books on Bragg? I’ve started with the two-volume Br...

Gloomy day here in the mountains of western NC. It seems that we have tried to make up for our year-long rain deficit in the last couple of ...

For most of you who have been reading this blog for some time, you know that I’ve taken an interest in Vance’s Legion. Now I’m trying to dec...

Yesterday, I answered about 35 emails concerning the 58th NCT, and two concerning the 37th NCT. I am trying hard to get the emails from my r...

This past Saturday, I had the privilege of going out with a fine group of folks to place VA grave markers on the graves of Confederate soldi...

I started a new blog yesterday. It is called Glimpses of Avery County and is a place to show off some of my local photography. Last night, ...

What a trip - I left home Wednesday morning at 11:00 am, and got back home Thursday afternoon at 12:45 pm. I drove to Ashland, Virginia, did...

A couple of days ago, I wrote a paragraph, a nice long one, on the bridge burnings in east Tennessee and their connection to the formation o...

New Book - Just Released Folks - I am happy to announce the release of my eighth book - Remembering Avery County: Old Tales from North Carol...

I got an email from a friend a couple of days ago. He is interested in a group of Georgians stationed along the coast of North Carolina in A...

I’ve spent the past few days on "vacation" in east Tennessee and Kentucky. I know many people would not consider the constan...

A few days ago I advanced a theory on the bridge burnings in east Tennessee as being an impetus behind the formation of the Mitchell Rangers...