Looking for the Confederate War

A few days ago, something on Kevin Levin’s Civil War Memory blog caught my attention. And while I’m not going to speak for the South as a w...

It case you have not heard, Wal-Mart chose not to build their superstore on the Wilderness battlefield in Virginia. This is something we hav...

BATH – “Sometimes it is the little stories that matter,” said Leigh Swain, site manager at Historic Bath. Many of those stories are containe...

Here is our next set of 20 questions, with a special thanks to Chris Meekins! 1) Q. The Confederate Veterans camp in Elizabeth City was ...

A new study shows that while North Carolina still lost the most men in the war of any Southern state in the Civil War, the figures used sinc...

A few folks probably already know this, but many do not. This year is the 100th Anniversary of the county I call home. Avery County was form...

Sometimes, usually late at night as I drive back home from a lecture someplace, I think about all of the great experiences that I have had o...

I’ve been a supporter of the preservation of the Civil War battlefields for a long time – I actually have a pen here on my desk stamped with...

Sorry for the slow posting this week. It’s not that I’m not thinking about North Carolina and the War – I am. I’ve researched and written ab...

CRESWELL – Somerset Place State Historic Site in Creswell will present the lecture "The Impact and Implication of the Civil War from th...

Probably two years ago, I started prominently displaying photographs of Confederate flags which were the focus of the conservation fundraisi...

FOUR OAKS — After months of being closed for plaster repair work, the Harper House at Bentonville Battlefield State Historic Site re-opens t...

A couple of months ago, I was out on a ramble. Not exactly a ramble – I was taking pictures for a local magazine I write for, but I was hitt...

RALEIGH – Burning bacon or a bridge, firing on a church or scribbling in a courthouse, moving toward or away from troop supplies, all are ta...

There has been a recent trend in Academia to downplay the role of Unionism of western North Carolina. For decades , the academic party line ...

Zebulon Baird Vance, still a representative in the US House, wrote local lawyer Walter W. Lenoir in Caldwell County on December 26, 1860. Hi...

Well folks, this will probably be the last look around we do for 2010, and, there are lots of stories around. The site of the C. S. S. Pee...

As many of you know, yesterday was the day – Secession Day. 150 years ago, South Carolina seceded from the Union. I chose not to post yester...

Given that I’ve had to cancel my past two engagements (due to the weather) I’ve been hesitant to post this. But, I think we are going to be ...

It is unusual to come across a Confederate tombstone with so little information on it. However, if you visit Cross Creek Cemetery in Fayette...