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If you have not had a chance yet, please check out the North Carolina Sesquicentennial web site. I am really looking forward to this celebra...

Our trip to Wake Forest was good. However, it rained all day Friday, so I got no sight seeing/cemetery crawling accomplished. On Saturday, w...

Sorry for not posting more this week - been hard at work on the 58th NCT book. I’m off to Wake Forest today. My darling wife is presenting a...

Ok - time to change campaigns. I have this article about the 37th NCT at Gettysburg that I've been tinkering with on and off for about t...

After leaving Crow Valley Road, I drove a few miles north to visit the Chickamauga battlefield. I stopped by the information desk, and picke...

Yesterday, I received a letter from Andy Turner, the newish editor ofGettysburg Magazine. Gettysburg Magazine is a publication devotedenti...

Busy weekend as usual. I was at the heritage festival in Spruce Pine on Saturday and had an enjoyable time. Yesterday, after church, I heade...

After leaving Tunnel Hill, I stopped and got some lunch. While I was eating, I pored over a map that I had gotten and found what I was looki...

One of the first places I visited on my trip was Tunnel Hill . I was at Tunnel Hill maybe eight years ago, before the museum and tunnel were...

We got back from our trip west late last night. I did not get to a third of the places that I wanted to or needed to visit. But, I had a gre...

Well, I’m off today for a trip to the battlefields of north Georgia. Some of these sites I’ve not visited in several years - probably a deca...

That last post was my 100th - a small milestone. I do wish that it had been on a happier subject. I finished chapter 5 of the 58th NCT book ...

We discovered last week that Yancey County’s last original iron cross, found on the grave of James T. Fox, a member of the 58th North Caroli...

It is amazing how quickly time flies. Has it already been a week since I posted last? We (my family) spent this past Saturday at olde timey ...

Well, I finished chapter four last week, and I'm well into chapter five. The regiment has finally gotten out of the mountains and is inJ...

Keith Snipes wrote recently looking for more information regarding the battle flags of Lane’s brigade. Keith wrote: Your writing of the miss...

Found this article on my web crawl this morning. Good to see Chris is still out there working on preserving local history. I first met him w...

Chris Graham sent me an email with the accession number for the remnants of the flag of the 17th North Carolina - thanks Chris! I’m not sure...

I had an email this evening from Russ Lane, a descendant of a member of the 17th NCT. He was asking about the battle flag of the 17th NCT. I...

Well, I’m in the middle of a very busy week. I had the book signing Sunday in Lenoir. I had another last night in Clyde (Haywood County), th...