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RALEIGH, N.C. -- As our nation commemorates the sesquicentennial (150th  anniversary) of the Civil War, volunteers across the country will ...

For the past three years, Our State magazine has been publishing a series of articles on the War. The ones that I have read have not been ...

KINSTON, N.C. - This Monday, March 10 at 10 a.m., the N.C. Department of Cultural Resources' State Underwater Archeology team will be o...

This past weekend, I had a chance to pick up Thomas D. Perry's "North Carolina Has Done Nobly": Civil War Stories from Mount...

Volume 19 of  North Carolina Troops, 1861-1865: A Roster contains the unit histories and troop rosters for 6 battalions and 25 independent...

This is so wrong .   Find-a grave can be very useful, but this is a good example of how misleading open-sourced web sources can be. I d...

WINNABOW, N.C. -- Take to the high seas and explore the "Navy Way" during the  149th Anniversary of the Fall of Fort Anderson Fe...

I'm perplexed. In the past, I have always written that Branch's brigade carried either state flags or First Nationals until issued...

For the fourth time in my writing career, I'm chronicling the events of the battle of Hanover Court House, fought May 27, 1862, just n...

I recently sat down and looked through the rosters of the regiments in the Branch-Lane Brigade during the months (February - April 1862)...

KINSTON, N.C. – The CSS Neuse Civil War Interpretive Center will host the USS Underwriter Expedition Symposium and Navy Living History...

Over the past few weeks, I've endeavored to share what I have learned in writing regimental histories. As you probably know, I'v...