Looking for the Confederate War

I’m behind on my postings for this week – had some computer problems that are hopefully resolved. What I hope to write in the next couple of...

Sorry to hear that Bill Scaife has passed away. I used his book The Campaign for Atlanta extensively in the 58th NCT book. You can read an...

Two counties in one week…. Moore County was formed in 1784 and named for Alfred Moore, a Revolutionary War officer and later justice on the ...

Time for a look at another one of North Carolina’s great counties. Person County was formed in 1791, and named for Gen. Robert Person of Rev...

Recently, I got Glatthaar’s book General Lee’s Army , in the mail (thanks, Matt). As usual, I flipped through the index first. To my surpris...

I’ve been working today on writing captions for the book on the 58th NCT. The book will have approximately 100 photographs, many of them are...

Well, time for our look around. Rob Neufield started a series on western North Carolina Civil War sites. Check it out here . The Star News O...

There have been several times in my life when I have had the opportunity to work with the National Park Service and do living history progra...

Come see me this weekend at Chickamauga. It's great to be portraying the actual 58th on the actual ground!

Ok- I learned something new today. That’s not to say that I don’t learn something new every day, I just thought I would share it with you to...

Greetings folks! There is an article in The Daily Citizen about an upcoming living history at Chickamauga National Battlefield Park. A grou...

I think I was able to put two and two together this morning and come out with the original color company of the 58th NCT. The color guard of...

Time for our look around the old North State. There is an article on the passing of CSS Neuse II’s founder Ted Sampley on encToday. Check it...

I thought I would pass along a 58th NCT update. This morning, I wrote the last paragraph in the book. There will undoubtedly be some things ...

Greetings folks! I received this email concerning my last post – thanks to Richard Howland who lives in California for the information. I r...

I had the distinct pleasure this past Saturday to work (again) in the Hill/Ledford Cemetery in Mitchell County. There are at least four Civi...

Interesting article this morning on the digitation of Freedman’s Bureau records in Virginia in the Winston-Salem Journal . You can read the ...

I thought this morning we would turn our attention to Lenoir County, over toward the east coast. Lenoir County is named for Gen. William Len...

Well folks, here are some items that I saw in a search around different online news outlets. There is an article on Politico.com on Rep. Ale...

Dang – I messed up. It is the 146th Anniversary of the battle of Gettysburg, not the 145th – what was I thinking?