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Friends, please find below what I believe to be an updates list of modern (post-1960) North Carolina Regimental histories. If you see so...

Last night, I picked up one of my favorite books for a re-read. That book is Harsh's Taken at the Flood: Robert E. Lee and Confedera...

In my quest to fully understand and write about the role of the Branch-Lane brigade, I recently finished reading the only two books on the...

Folks - I'll be at these places this week. If you get a chance, come on out and say hi! Tuesday, April 29 - Matthews Historical S...

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...