Looking for the Confederate War

Lee's bed, table, and camp chest. (Museum of the Confederacy)     For several weeks, I was reading deeply into the history of th...

Col. Walter Taylor For the past few days, I've been reading through Lee's Adjutant: The Wartime Letters of Colonel Walter Herr...

   As many of you know, I've been reading a great deal about Confederate cavalry in the east in preparation for my own history of the ...

A few weeks ago, I wrote a post asking about who carried Robert E. Lee's headquarters' flag during the war. The short answer was ...

Since taking on the 39th Battalion Virginia Cavalry project, I decided that I needed to immerse myself in the history of the cavalry in th...

 Earlier this week, I asked this question on my facebook page: who carried Robert E. Lee's headquarters flag? The short answer would be...

   A couple of weeks ago, I wrote on the captured CS papers in Charlotte at the end of the war. You can catch that article here . What was...

When we think of refugees during the War years, Vicksburg always comes to mind. Residents in the besieged city were forced out of their ...

In late fall of 1863, Longstreet moved his command toward Knoxville, attempting to drive Federal forces out of the city and to restore the...

Someone emailed me years ago, looking for a day-by-day account of a specific Confederate ancestor. This correspondent, I imagine, had no i...

   A few days ago, a friend and I visited the site of AP Hill's death in Petersburg, Virginia. It had been several years since my la...

Pvt. John W. Towson, 39th Batt. VA Cav.      A lot of times, I'll show up at an event, give my talk, answer a few question, and a...

Post-war image of the Mecklenburg County Courthouse      To my knowledge (limited, I know), there has only been one article ever w...

A week or so ago, I picked up a copy of D. Michael Thomas's Wade Hampton's Iron Scouts: Confederate Special Forces, released b...

For the past couple of days, I've been reading "My Dear Friend: The Civil War Letters of Alva Benjamin Spencer, 3rd Georgia Regime...