Looking for the Confederate War

If you go to Google, and type in Old Red Fox, the image and story of East Tennessee Unionist Dan Ellis pops up. The Carter County native pi...

We don't seem to talk much about Statesville and the War. And to be honest, not that much went on there during the conflict. Or, maybe ...

   On September 1, 1863, Joseph Grubb, a private in the 4th Tennessee Infantry (US), made a recruiting sweep through the Laurel community o...

   As spring and summer approach, I seem to find myself talking more and more about Gettysburg. People stop me and want my take on what to ...

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 ...