Looking for the Confederate War

   Recently, I acquired a copy of Joan Cashin's War Stuff: The Struggle for Human and Environmental Resources in the American Civil Wa...

   It seems that any time that documentation is presented regarding Free People of Color volunteering and fighting as Confederate soldiers...

This article appeared in the Herald Dispatch from Huntington, West Virginia, on April 1, 2019. Overall, it's not a bad piece. My thoug...

    One thing is for certain when dealing with literature of the 1860s: it's as deep as it is broad. Ever since the war ended, veteran...

   That's a big-sounding title for a post on my long-running blog, don't you think? When I submitted my proposal to Savas Beatie f...

William Mack Lee Atlanta Constitution October 7, 1919 (probably not R. E. Lee's cook)    In the world of Confederate history, th...

   Johnson City, Tennessee, is celebrating its 150th anniversary this year. There will be a wide variety of activities and events, and the...

   One of my favorite stories I have uncovered over the past 25 years of researching and writing has to do with the lowly pea. I used the ...

   Recently, I finished reading A Frenchman, A Chaplain, A Rebel: The War Letters of Pere Louis-Hippolyle Gache, S. J. (1981). Goche was b...

   This next project, "Feeding the Army of Northern Virginia," has me reading a great number of letters, diaries, and reminiscen...

Johnston and Sherman at the Bennett Place    On March 26, 1865, Federal general William T. Sherman met with US President Abraham Linc...