Looking for the Confederate War

    In February 1861, two pro-secession state senators from western North Carolina, Marcus Erwin and W. W. Avery, issued an address to the p...

Louis Brown, in his book on the Salisbury Prison, has a long list of civilian prisoners incarcerated at the North Carolina stockade. One o...

5th Virginia Infantry band (Military Images, 1983)     Music has always played an important part of military life, from the drums that woke ...

  Robert E. Lee once remarked that “I don’t believe we can have an army without music.” [1] Lee was referencing the brass band of the 26 th...

     In 1939, Douglas Southall Freeman gave a series of lectures at Alabama College. These lectures were “an informal historiography” to the...

     A week ago, I had a chance to visit to Sharpsburg and the Antietam Battlefield. For the first time, I sought out General Lee’s Headquar...

     And just like that, the manuscript has been submitted to the publisher. Feeding the Army of Northern Virginia was a lot of work, a lot...

 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...