Looking for the Confederate War

For the past two months, I've been writing about Lane's brigade and the battle of Chancellorsville for two different destinations. ...

I have written in the past about a set of missing flags from the Branch-Lane brigade. I understand missing a flag or two from a regiment, b...

  For the past couple of weeks, I've been working on the Chancellorsville chapter of the Branch-Lane book. In all the accounts that I h...

   In Volume 8 the North Carolina Troops books series, on page 148, we find this: Polk, John ----- Negro. Served as "body guard t...

Despite all of the traveling this summer, I've made some progress on the Branch-Lane manuscript. I've been working on a chapter abo...

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...