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Most of you know that I collect books. One of the cornerstones of that collection is any book that deals with North Carolina and the War. T...

I'll be speaking in Greensboro this Saturday. If you get a chance, come and join us!

One aspect of the War that has always been of interest to me is the role of transportation. In our world, we can easily travel from place t...

Every so often, some message will be floating around on facebook that goes something along these lines: "If you could go back in histo...

Now taking orders for signed copies!!! The Capitals of the Confederacy will be released in a couple of weeks, and I am now taking pre-order...

Many times, people will ask about my favorite part of a book. Well, I like all of it. If I didn't like a part, I rewrote it! That being...

I'm about a month out from the publication of my twentieth book, The Capitals of the Confederacy. As we lead up to the event, I though...

As many of you know, I've been reading (slowly) through Joseph Glathaar's General Lee's Army. On page 394, I came across this ...

I am extremely blessed that I get to spend my days with some great writers and historians. Recently, I To Antietam Creek . It is a fantasti...

Civil War Living History Day Saturday, February 14 10:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. Learn about life during the turbulent 1860s with ree...

There are many different ways to examine the men who served as colonels of Confederate infantry regiments: age, education, pre-war occupati...

A week ago, I was just getting home from the Fort Fisher event. I had meant to post some thoughts earlier, but book proofs and other things...

Many of you know I don't make trips off the mountain much in the winter time.  The weather is unpredictable, and the months of December...

As part of the Conscription Act of April 1862, regiments that re-enlisted for the war were allowed to re-elect their commanding officers. M...

Anytime you are researching and have more than one source, you run into the possibility of the sources not agreeing. Such is the case of th...

On several occasions in the past few years, I have been honored to stand on the stage at the North Carolina Museum of History and Raleigh i...

Recently, I was reading the most recent issue of The Journal of the Civil War Era, and I found a mention of “a racially integrated Confeder...

RALEIGH, N.C. -- The North Carolina Symphony will perform "Battle Hymn of the Republic: Words and Music From the Civil War," a spe...

In doing some research today, I came across the following, concerning a visit of Governor Ellis to  Richmond in May 1861. I'm not sure ...

Have you ever wondered about those two cannons on either side of the Confederate monument on Union Square in Raleigh? Union Square? The Nor...