Looking for the Confederate War

Someone wrote me a couple of days ago and asked what I thought of the idea of Abe Lincoln being born in North Carolina. I for one would real...

I have come to the conclusion that writing a regimental history is one of the hardest things to do. I’ve written one regimental history (37t...

I thought I would spend a little more time dealing with Charlotte’s war-time history. Historiography: To my knowledge, there has only been o...

North Carolina only held the National Reunion for the United Confederate Veterans once: in 1929. This is a mystery to me. Other states held ...

Off to Durham this afternoon. I’m speaking this evening at the Bennett Place at 6:30 pm.

After the parade, many participated in a "Memorial Hour", where the members of UCV, SCV, and CSMA gathered to pay "tribute......

This week’s past encounter with a gentleman who witnessed the 1929 national United Confederate Veterans reunion has prompted me dig a little...

Last night’s talk went really well. There was a gentleman in the audience who remembered the 1929 United Confederate Veterans reunion in Cha...

Ben Fordney writes in his preface for his new book: "There is no lack of Civil War biographies on our nation’s bookshelves celebrating ...

As I posted yesterday, I finished the draft of chapter 9 last week.The Atlanta campaign comes next and I'm reading about Resaca right no...

A few days ago, I finished the draft of Chapter 9 for the 58th NCT book. This chapter concludes with the Dalton executions the first of May ...

Well, I am in a dilemma. I’ll lay out my facts. According to an article, dated May 5, 1864, found in the Daily Constitutionalist, there were...

I’ve been able to identify thirteen men from the 58th North Carolina who were court martialed and ordered to be executed for desertion on Ma...

Folks - I’ll be doing a program (and signing books) on Watauga County and the Civil War tomorrow at the Watauga County Public Library in Boo...

Today, I had the distinct pleasure of speaking at the dedication of two North Carolina Civil War Trail Marker dedications in Caldwell County...

I finished writing about the battle of Dalton on Monday. The 58th NCT was in the front lines, but was not heavily involved. They only skirmi...

The 58th North Carolina was stationed in Dalton, Georgia, as provost guards from late January to late February 1864. Over the weekend, I was...

Writing in 1971, Connelly, in his history of the Army of Tennessee, has this to say about the first battle of Dalton: By February 21, the he...

Large armies never marched where I live. And the largest military action of the war was when Stoneman’s Raiders came through, their advance ...

The Civil War Preservation Trust’s annual report on the most endangered Civil War sites has just been released. Antietam and the proposed ce...