Looking for the Confederate War

 Johnson County is tucked far up into the corner of east Tennessee, boarded by North Carolina to the east and Virginia to the north. In 1860...

  At times we get caught up in the bigger War, epitomized by places like Chancellorsville or the Atlanta Campaign. There was, however, anoth...

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 ...