Looking for the Confederate War

Not long ago, I was listening to a podcast, and the host confessed that he had yet to watch any of the PBS series Mercy Street. The host s...

One of those questions floating around my mind on Sunday as I drove to Raleigh was how many governors in North Carolina had Confederate s...

   No discussion about salt and the War is complete without some mentions of the Quakers, Moravians, and Wesleyan Methodists in central Nor...

Preserving old textiles is no easy feat, especially when they are made of silk. My friends in the Yadkin Gray Eagles Camp, Sons of Confeder...

For the past couple of weeks, I've been poring over the various accounts of the Shelton Laurel event in January 1863. A little bac...

In November 1861, a group of dissidents/Unionists burned several bridges in East Tennessee. They had been told that Federal soldiers were o...

This week, I am writing about the Shelton Laurel Massacre. Traditionally, this story starts with the Unionist-leaning Shelton Laurel people...

Time to start putting that 2017 calendar together. I am still out stumping the Capitals of the Confederacy/North Carolina as the Last Confe...

Last night was the premiere of the Petersburg episode on Blood and Fury. So how did I become involved? Here's my story. In May of ...

You've probably figured out that I like lists of books. For several years, I've kept a list of North Carolina counties and their ...

This weekend, our friends at Ft. Fisher are holding their anniversary events. If you live in the area, please drop in and check out the...

A couple of months ago, I was reading a new biography on a North Carolina Confederate general. In this book, the author claimed that North ...

   In the January issue of America's Civil War, there is an interesting piece on the LeMat revolvers, written by Michael G. Williams. ...

Leroy Pope Walker, Confederacy Secretary of War For the past few days, I've been reading Denis Peterson's Confederate Cabinet ...

Have you ever been reading something and a word or two, or a sentence, kind of pops out at you? That was me a couple a days ago. I was readi...

It should not come as any surprise, but I read lots of books every year. They are for research, for reviews, even for fun. A couple of week...

In June 1864, Capt. George W. Kirk led a raid from East Tennessee into Western North Carolina. Kirk surrounded and captured Camp Vance near...

Kevin Stone asked the other day about the Lockville and Haywood communities in Chatham County during the War. Let's look at Lockville. ...

Last week, I posted that it was my tenth anniversary as a blogger. As part of my "celebration," I asked a few friends to intervie...