Looking for the Confederate War

It is a familiar scene for those of us who study the War. General Lee, concerned about repairing the breach, twice appeared at the head of ...

So many times, in writing about battles, the sources with which I have to work are very vague. We attacked here, or charged, or were fired ...

For many years, the people of North Carolina have been responsible for raising the funds to see to it that Confederate flags, entrusted to ...

While reading Chaplain Francis Kennedy's diary today, I came across this, written on July 22, 1863: "We marched about 19 miles and...

Pick up any order of battle for Confederate forces commanding at Gettysburg, and Col. William Barber, of the 37th North Carolina Troops, is...

I don't like math. Math was the reason it took me so long to finish my undergraduate degree. However, I find myself doing a lot of numb...

   Last week, I was in Raleigh, visiting the North Carolina Museum of History to see Leonardo da Vinci's Codex Leicester. After we fini...

   Lately, I've been doing some reading in the Landscape of War, and thinking about how I can incorporate this idea into a brigade hist...

Often, I have wondered what became of the deserters who are mentioned in the regimentals that I have written. The majority came home (or ...

Not long ago, I was reading William C. Davis's Crucible of Command, a dual biography of Robert E. Lee and Ulysses S. Grant. It is a re...

Friends, I have two final engagements for the year. This Friday, I'll be at the Burke County Museum of History in Morganton for their h...

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...