Looking for the Confederate War

   The more deeply I read into Confederate history, the more convinced I am that it was Winfield Scott, not U.S. Grant, who actually “won...

   There are many different types of Confederate hospitals. A regiment in camp early on in the war would set up a hospital in a tent or lo...

Over the past few days, while working on the Feeding the Army of Northern Virginia project, I have spent some time looking through some Vi...

      Lt. Col. William S. Pierson Hoffman’s Battalion was in a pickle. A group of new prisoners recently captured at the fall of Port Hudson...

   On a few occasions, I’ve blogged about African-Americans in the Confederate army. It is a subject that needs much more objective explor...

   The soldiers called it the Virginia Quick Step or the Tennessee Trots. It would be unlikely to find some Confederate soldier who did no...

   Have you ever been to Stonewall Jackson’s grave in Lexington, Virginia? Ever noticed all of the lemons near his headstone? Henry Kyd...

    When I wrote the chapter on brigade medical care for General Lee’s Immortals, I relied upon five   books (secondary sources) to provi...

   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...