Looking for the Confederate War

   A friend recently asked the question: “did Southern troops ever live off of Hardtack like Federal soldiers?” That’s a great question!...

   Thomas Ballard was born ca.1825 in Virginia. He was proprietor of the Ballard House hotel in Richmond prior to the war, and at the age ...

    I think we can all agree that coffee played a crucial role in the lives of Confederate soldiers. And, as it has become apparent to me ...

Edmund DeWitt Patterson, an enlisted man in the 9 th Alabama Infantry, was wounded during the battle of Frayser’s Farm, June 30, 1862. On...

     Slowly the little band of twenty-eight enlisted men and four officers sloshed through the mud over the top of a hill and down into ...