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Talking about desertion is never an easy task. We are all proud of our ancestors and what they did. We kind of confine the deserters in the ...

New North Carolina/Civil War books coming this spring: Fear in North Carolina: The Civil War Journals and Letters of the Henry Family ed. by...

Folks - I’ve been working on my spring/summer/fall 2008 appearance schedule. You can check it out here . If you would like me to come and sp...

There was an interesting article this morning in the Charlotte Observer regarding the final resting place of Sgt. Ivy Ritchie of the 14th N...

Since I have been working on the Chickamauga section of the book, I have done a little more digging into the life of Lt. Col. Edmund Kirby, ...

I recently was asked to come up with a list of the five or six most important Confederate monuments in North Carolina. That has been a prett...

This evening, I’ve been working on a little article for the Newsletter of the Avery County Historical Society and Museum. The article deals ...

I recently came across an article in the Charlotte Observer about the ongoing work of Charles Purser. For a second time, Purser has identif...

I’m in utter shock. A couple of days ago, I got an email from a gentleman in Connecticut who has a Confederate flag in his collection that m...

This afternoon, I received an email from the fine folks at Savas-Beatie Publishing . They are compiling a Gettysburg Encyclopedia, and I had...

Happy New Year! We had a great 2007 here in the Hardy household last year, and we are really looking forward to 2008! Yesterday, I had to do...

Greetings folks! I hope everyone has had a great Christmas! We spent a week with my mom and dad in sunny central Florida and had a great tim...

I’ve been out of town the past few days, and hence, no blogging. But I have been reading, mostly about Chickamauga. Right before we left tow...

I had a chance last night to attend a book discussion on a recent release: Neighbor to Neighbor: A Memoir of Family, Community, and Civil Wa...

New books on North Carolina and the Civil War Neighbor to Neighbor - A Memoir of Family, Community and Civil War in Appalachian North Caroli...

I’ve been pondering this article by Katherine A. Giuffre for the better part of a week now. The article is entitled "First in Flight: D...

Over the past few days, I've been working on the desertion problem and the 58th NCT. To say that desertion was a problem for the 58th NC...

Folks - I’ll be signing books tomorrow, December 1st, at the Carson House in Marion, North Carolina, from 12:00 until 3:00 pm. If you are in...

Folks - I had a reader send me a couple of days ago this piece about the marking of the grave of Col. Isaac E. Avery of the 6th North Caroli...

One of the benefits of my job, at least as I see it, is being able to spend time in some of the most beautiful cemeteries in the South. Ther...