Looking for the Confederate War

   I sometimes wonder how many Confederate generals kept livestock close by during the war. We know that there were horses and mules, used...

    Sometimes you just find accounts that make a person laugh out loud. As I was reading through an account by a member of Holcombe Legion...

    A couple of weeks ago, while filming a short interview with Chris Mackowski of Emerging Civil War (we were at the American Battlefield ...

Friends, I am now taking pre-orders for signed copies of Lee's Body Guard: The 39th Battalion Virginia Cavalry. I expect to mail copie...

   Over the years, I have had a chance to visit every battlefield where the Branch-Lane fought, walking the ground where they fought, save...

For the past several months, I posted several times on the role of couriers, mounted couriers, within the Army of Northern Virginia. Of co...

Mt Jackson Confederate Hospital     Over the past few months, I have noticed a interesting trend: people really seem to like the chapt...

   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...