Looking for the Confederate War

   I am always on the lookout for books about North Carolina and the War. The vast majority of the tomes I have written are on the subject...

It is often said that there were 10,500 "battles, engagements, and other military actions" during the Civil War. That is somewhe...

I recently found the late Arthur Bergeron's Guide to Louisiana Confederate Military Units, 1861-1865 , on my own shelf. Not sure why I...

Once a young man (or sometimes an older man) joined the army, he was supposed to be examined by a surgeon or doctor. Turning back to t...

The title of this post seems to have a simple answer: join the Confederate army, or, as the song says, "Jine the Cavalry." But i...

Company K, 4th Georgia Infantry.     Last night, during my facebook live Sunday Night History discussion, I mentioned about how we rea...

For the past few weeks, I've been spending a great deal of time reading deeply into the history of the Army of Northern Virginia. Most...

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...