Looking for the Confederate War

Things are slowing down just a little over the next month. If you are out and about, please come join me! August 1 - Ft. Fisher - 2:00 pm...

I've been working on the story of the band of the Thirty-third regiment today. It is at times frustrating that someone can write an ent...

Continuing the theme of interesting questions that arise during the Q&A, I thought we would spend a little time looking at the life of ...

Continuing my "Stump the Historian" series today. Last week, I spoke at the Iredell County Public Library, and the claim of the V...

It looks like things are going to calm down just a little over the next month. I have not quite as many places to go, but I am taking the C...

As I travel about and talk to folks about the last days of the Confederate government in North Carolina, the fate of the gold and silver of...

RALEIGH, N.C. -- Union Gen. William T. Sherman and Confederate Gen. Joseph E. Johnston negotiated the largest troop surrender of the Civil ...

Over the past couple of weeks, as I have been out speaking about the various Confederate capitals, the question frequently arises about oth...

My next "Stump the historian question" came this past Saturday at the Bennett Place State Historic Site. A gentleman from the aud...

In last night's question session after my lecture, someone asked about Jefferson Davis and when (or if) he ever got his citizenship res...

My Capitals of the Confederacy tour kicks off this Wednesday at the Rowan County Public Library. On Saturday evening, I'll be speaking ...

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...