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On April 9, 1865, Pvt. Joshua O. Johns rode into the village of Appomattox Court House. He was one of three Confederates on the grounds of...

Lee, Marshall, and Johns.     I'm not sure of the source of this scene that is floating around in my head. Maybe it is a painting,...

Attending church services was one of the activities Confederate soldiers could choose to break the monotony of their day-to-day lives. At ...

    One of the most powerful scenes in the plays of Shakespeare occurs in Henry V , in which Good King Harry ditches his kingly garments, ...

Toe River Valley during the War    This was the topic of my facebook live program this past Sunday evening: does "little history...

Veterans left us a great deal of information about the events in which they participated during the war. At times though, they skipped ove...

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...