Looking for the Confederate War

North Carolina Monument, Gettysburg    There have been a couple of articles floating about the past couple of weeks about how monume...

   Friends, we have a manuscript! 152 pages, 61,785 words, and 300 sources. Actually, that happened about a week ago. I’ve read it twice, ...

   It is sometimes easy for us to sit back and relish in the campaign maps that we have available at our fingertips. I have a large notebo...

    In September 1864, Confederate cavalry commander Wade Hampton made a raid on a Federal herd of beef. It was a daring raid behi...

   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 ...